Former press secretary's book bashes Bush

So he's not just the idiot president he's a lying evil idiot pesident.

The Bush defense has already mobilized. First line of defense: McClellan is disgruntled. He's got lots of company there. About 75% of the country is disgruntled with the Bush administration these days.

Second line of defense: he never objected to these things at the time. Hmmm. So they don't deny that these things happened, just that McClellan didn't object to them. Yeah, that's a good defense.

Another case of greed!!!!!!!!!! What ever happened to loyalty, honesty and integrity. Hpe the money from your book brings you nothing but misery and unhappines. Hope you choke on the money. You are a miserable example of the people we have in gobernment today.

This Bush and the last Bush adminastration was evil doing evil, and we were dummed from the start. If they think they are going to get by without paying for what they have done to this country, well they better think again . Because there are always repocusins for what we all do in life . And I belive that this was the worst. We have had 8 years of this puppet and Chenny pulling the strings . So I say let them rot in h---. for the Bush faimly is nothing But evil. And for the people that let this happen I say shame on you I thought Amercians were smarter than this, But I guess I was worng .

Seems to me that McClellan is indicting himself with weak moral or ethical stance if he felt Bush was not straight forward and he failed to resign and then go public with his criticism at the time. It doesn't improve his credibility in my mind.

It's easy to jump on the beat up on Bush bandwagon. Everyone loves a tell all book and it's virtually impossible to rebut such an offering whether it's a celebrity of official. There were certainly mistakes made in the prosecution of the post-war handling of Iraq and it took several years, many lives, and a surge to set it right. But let's everyone remember at the time leading up to war, every national intelligence agency of any consequence (i.e., UK, Germany,Italy, US, Australia, Russia, etc. ) all were certain that Iraq was in possession of WMD and Colin Powell's presentation at the UN played recordings of Iraqi officials trying to hide things. We haven't found any WMD of any consequence yet but we fooled around for a year leading up to the war and it wouldn't surprise me to ultimately learn that they're in Syria or still buried in one of the undiscovered Bathist hide aways. It wasn't Bush's lie about WMD. All the intelligence agencies were convinced on the matter.

Scott needs his hearing checked because half of his
words are lies. makes a good fiction novel.

Tell us something we didn't know! I think many felt that Bush and the White House were maniupulating things to ensure that we went to war. I believe that in the past, Presidents' approval ratings have gone up during wartime. I think Bush was hoping that Iraq would have gone our way, and he would be pereceived as the President who led us to victory, thus upping his approval ratings.

So he comes out in the name of truth and ethical standards NOW, once his book comes out? Where was his spine when all this was going down?

Doesn't surprise me IN THE LEAST that the Bush media machine and all the pundits are going to town on him now, closing the wagons as it were. Just like with the former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill who said many of the same things, they'll pass it off as innuendo and hearsay because he's "disgruntled." It would see the body of evidence points to the obvious: the unjust and illegal war started and we're still paying for with our tax money and young American lives was based on lies and manipulation. SURPRISE! Not...

Clopes7081 wrote:

What ever happened to loyalty, honesty and integrity.

Seems like McClellan finally discovered these traits and spilled the beans on bush.
You have to understand that some people are more loyal to America than to their boss.
Thank goodness!

Ace wrote:

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Seems like McClellan finally discovered these traits and spilled the beans on bush.
You have to understand that some people are more loyal to America than to their boss.
Thank goodness!

He also discovered, write book make big bucks..... Sounds familar doesn't it?

Lonelyringer wrote:

It's easy to jump on the beat up on Bush bandwagon. Everyone loves a tell all book and it's virtually impossible to rebut such an offering whether it's a celebrity of official. There were certainly mistakes made in the prosecution of the post-war handling of Iraq and it took several years, many lives, and a surge to set it right. But let's everyone remember at the time leading up to war, every national intelligence agency of any consequence (i.e., UK, Germany,Italy, US, Australia, Russia, etc.) all were certain that Iraq was in possession of WMD and Colin Powell's presentation at the UN played recordings of Iraqi officials trying to hide things. We haven't found any WMD of any consequence yet but we fooled around for a year leading up to the war and it wouldn't surprise me to ultimately learn that they're in Syria or still buried in one of the undiscovered Bathist hide aways. It wasn't Bush's lie about WMD. All the intelligence agencies were convinced on the matter.

"post-war handling of Iraq?" You've got to be kidding dude! Post war starts when it's over! The accusations include that there was NO PLAN. This entire operation has been a frigging disaster. We pretend to be a super power, then go about proving we have no idea what we're doing.
You say "every national intelligence agency of any consequence" were certain that Iraq had WMD? You simply made that up. Name me one that said that! Bush's own intelligence told him that they weren't pursuing uranium enrichment at the exact time that he and Powell were lying about it on national tv. Of course I beg the question, perhaps you don't regard America's intelligence as one "of any consequence."

Ace wrote:

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Seems like McClellan finally discovered these traits and spilled the beans on bush.
You have to understand that some people are more loyal to America than to their boss.
Thank goodness!

You cannot put honesty and loyalty in the same sentence in this case. For McClellan to be loyal, he would have had to tell the same lies Bush was telling. The operant word here is "accessory," blind loyalty is as injurious as disloyalty.

Come on, if the poor guy would have said something while he was workin for Bushy, Cheney would have shot him!

I have yet to hear anyone in the administration say that his accusations are wrong or that what he writes is a lie. Mostly they just spew shock and awe about how disappointed they are in a man they thought was a loyal Bushy, and they try to discredit him by labeling him disgruntled. But to say that he should have spoken up at the time is to acknowledge that there was indeed something to speak up about. In other words, they are acknowledging that the book is telling the truth about this disgusting pigsty of an administration.

If it wasn't for our presence in Iraq, Isreal would be a glowing blob by now thanks to Iran.
Do I like this reality? No, but the current leader of Iran has made his intentions known in no uncertain terms. Like it or not, if it wasn't for Mr.Bush's insistance that we go into Iraq, regardless of the reason, we would be over there now with far more casualties.

Larry wrote:

If it wasn't for our presence in Iraq, Isreal would be a glowing blob by now thanks to Iran.
Do I like this reality? No, but the current leader of Iran has made his intentions known in no uncertain terms. Like it or not, if it wasn't for Mr.Bush's insistance that we go into Iraq, regardless of the reason, we would be over there now with far more casualties.

Get a clue dude. Israel is NOT scared of anybody. They have the most well trained air force in the entire world! We gave them atomic weapons! They don't even want us in the way and they told us so when Hamas attacked them. Get real.

Dan wrote:

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Get a clue dude. Israel is NOT scared of anybody. They have the most well trained air force in the entire world! We gave them atomic weapons! They don't even want us in the way and they told us so when Hamas attacked them. Get real.

I agree that the Isrealis are very well trained, but that means little when you're getting nuked and the enemy doesn't care if it dies. Greater glory.

tom H wrote:

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He also discovered, write book make big bucks..... Sounds familar doesn't it?

I don't think getting paid for the book makes it a lie.
McClellan had a product and he sold it. He needed enough to retire on cause the bush machine will destroy any chances of a future career.
And I hesitate to shoot the messenger when his message is so spot on.

Ace wrote:

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I don't think getting paid for the book makes it a lie.
McClellan had a product and he sold it. He needed enough to retire on cause the bush machine will destroy any chances of a future career.
And I hesitate to shoot the messenger when his message is so spot on.

If he was so righteous, Why did he not step down when he believed there were wrong doings going on at the time holding that position? Lie or not I don't know, But he could have drop out if he believed it was wrong.