Yet another Bush insider ready to hit the book circuit with a piece damning the Bush administration; former Press secretary and number one assistant to Ari Fleisher (Ari: one of the very few who continues to remain loyal to King George II, by the way),
Scott McClellan has come out with his tell all book,
"What Happened: Inside the White House and Washington Culture of Deception."
This blockbuster features the following smoking hot quotes in regards to the Middle east, as well as their near paralytic treatment of Hurricane Katrina....
President Bush “convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment,” and has engaged in “self-deception” to justify his political ends
the decision to invade Iraq was a “serious strategic blunder,” and yet, in his view, it was not the biggest mistake the Bush White House made. That, he says, was “a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed.”
top White House officials deceived him about the administration’s involvement in the leaking of the identity of a C.I.A. operative, Valerie Wilson. He says he did not know for almost two years that his statements from the press room that Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby Jr. were not involved in the leak were a lie. “Neither, I believe, did President Bush,” Mr. McClellan writes. “He too had been deceived, and therefore became unwittingly involved in deceiving me. But the top White House officials who knew the truth — including Rove, Libby, and possibly Vice President Cheney — allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie.”
the administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina? “They spent most of the first week in a state of denial” and “allowed our institutional response to go on autopilot.”
It wasn't just Bush and Cheney taking the blows to the belly in McClellan's book, witness this about Condoleeza Rice: “No matter what went wrong, she was somehow able to keep her hands clean,” Mr. McClellan writes, adding that “she knew how to adapt to potential trouble, dismiss brooding problems, and come out looking like a star.”
The administration has claimed that as the Bush administration's press secretary, he was not in the elevated position required to be truly in "the know" on many of these issues. However, one has only to look over the following former Bushies to see that all of these were in the know, and they all severely regret the position they held in the Bush administration, and will forever be wiping their tongues in a vein effort to eleviate themselves of the sour taste of knowing they played a role in the (yes, THE) worst, most corrupt, most damaging to its own country, most secretive administration in the history of the United States of America.
Counter terrorism adviser Richard Clarke
("Against All Enemies" and the new "Your Government Failed You")
former EPA chief and former New Jersey Gov.
Christine Todd Whitman ("It's My Party, Too")
former economic adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey ("What a President Should Know")
L. Paul Bremer, former U.S. administrator in Iraq ("My Year in Iraq")
Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage,
are believed to have been primary sources for books by such journalists as
Bob Woodward ("State of Denial").
Let's add the following Bushies who have turned against the administration
Attorney General John Ashcroft
CIA Director George Tenet
Former Bush insider David Frum
Press Secretary Karen Hughes
Bush administration terrorism expert Richard Clarke,
and on and on.....
They can attack the people all they want. The dominant opinion of all of these Bush administration officials are of one accord...the Bush administration represents eight of the worst years in American history. Eight years that have done tremendous, near reversable damage on a once proud nation.
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