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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER LIE BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
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The wheels are starting to come off the Cheney/Bush war wagon and Scott McClellan's new book ( What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception ) merely confirms what the alternative press, including myself, have known and reported since 2002 ~ that the Bush administration has been dishonest since day one and continues so today: Allen L Roland
" President 'manipulated truth to gain re-election " Administration stunned by McClellan's attack
29 May 2008 / A former senior aide to President Bush claims that the White House deliberately mounted a dishonest propaganda campaign to sell the Iraq invasion to the US public, in the most damning insider account of the presidency so far. Scott McClellan, who worked for Bush for seven years, including three as White House spokesman, brands the war a "serious strategic blunder" and "not necessary".
Book revelations:
* The president went to war against Iraq to secure his place in history and to spread democracy in the Middle East. Because he and his aides knew the case for war couldn't be sold to the American people on that basis, the president deliberately oversold and misrepresented intelligence on Saddam Hussein's links to international terrorism and his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction in what amounted to a "propaganda campaign."
* Presidential political advisor Karl Rove and former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby lied to McClellan about their roles in the Valerie Plame affair, leading him ~ in turn ~ to lie to the media.
* Rove's influence led Bush to give politics primacy over policy, even when dealing with national security, and played a particularly strong role in the administration's abominable response to the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
Bill Van Auken writes of the immediate Bush administration attempt to discredit McClellan's charges and coordinate another lie; http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/bush-m29.shtml
Excerpt:
Former White House chief of staff and Bush’s senior political advisor Karl Rove, who comes in for some of the harshest criticism in the book, suggested that McClellan didn’t even write it.
“First of all, this doesn’t sound like Scott. It really doesn’t,” Rove said on Fox News. “Not the Scott McClellan I’ve known for a long time. Second of all, it sounds like somebody else. It sounds like a left-wing blogger.”
Current White House press secretary Dana Perino issued a statement reacting to the reports on the book: “Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House. For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad ~ this is not the Scott we knew.”
Solution:
Have McClellan testify under oath and start Impeachment proceedings for Bush and Cheney now !
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/05/30.html
Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
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