Little Scotty....
Politico got an early copy of Scott McClellan's book, and he definitely goes "off message" at some points.
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence......
“History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.”
posted by mikevotes at
6:24 PM
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I think everyone but the Kool-Aid drinking (or Kool-Aid mixing) neo-cons will have memoirs similar to Scotty's. Not that they'll all write memoirs, but still...
Scotty didn't come form the Regent College, throw-his-own-mother-under-the-bus-for-the-cause, crusader wing.
Still, this is important to the cause of historic truth that someone in his position (presumably with inside-knowledge) would come out so publicly and strongly. Is he trying to purge his soul of the guilt of abetting evil through silence?
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-epm, at 7:19 PM
He also got burned by Rove, and left without the usual after administration position/future.
They used him and threw him out.
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mikevotes, at 9:03 PM
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