SCOTT MCCLELLAN, FORMER COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR GEORGE W. BUSH WRITES A SMASHING BOOK ABOUT A DYSFUNCTIONAL WHITE HOUSE AND PRESIDENT
FORMER AND PRESENT WHITE HOUSE CRONIES COME OUT WITH A WELL SCRIPTED RESPONSE INCLUDING WORDS SUCH AS “PUZZLED,” “THIS IS NOT THE SCOTT I REMEMBER,”AND “HE NEVER SAID A WORD OF THIS BEFORE HE LEFT.”
Scott McClellan’s new book entitled, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception has cause quite a stir inside the Beltway. All of Bush’ “good old boys” who are inside the loop of the Bush Administration, both past and present, have come out with their well-scripted response to the numerous accusations included in McClellan’s book which won’t be on bookstore shelves until next Tuesday.
I do not know whether all of the accusations are, in reality, true, but I am certain Scott will sell a ton of books.
The book is full of validation of incidents until now were nothing more than mellifluous rumors circulating around the nation’s capital. Now, a man who has been a Bush-man since he was Governor of Texas and has always been considered a Bush-insider, tears down the walls of secrecy that have always encircled everything the Bush/Cheney crowd has done. Since first they rushed into the oval office hungry to take over the reigns of power again that was stolen from them by Bill Clinton and his unexpected defeat of George Herbert Walker Bush in 1992, the public and the press have been consider enemies of the Bush State and not, in fact, never to be trusted with the truth of what our government was doing.
Many of those who rushed to the television cameras to defend the President included Ari Fleischer, McClellan’s former boss at the White House; Condoleezza Rice, who was properly exposed for her passive and unquestioning loyalty to the President; Dan Bartlett, Counselor to the President; and from the other side of the aisle a herd of enemies who have waited with baited breathe to jump on Bush and expose his real plans for Iraq.
Scott reports in his book that he over-heard Bush speaking on the phone to an apparent friend saying, “I just can’t remember.” Speaking of his bout with drugs, Bush went on, “We used to throw some pretty wild parties. I just can’t remember.”
McClellan writes according to press accounts that Bush insisted on surrounding himself with absolutely loyal advisors whose political perspective was identical to his and who did not question his decision once they were made usually on the basis of a gut reaction rather than any form of objective analysis.
After 9/11, Bush became obsessed with first of all wiping the al Qaeda off the face of the earth by bombing the living hell out of Afghanistan until these Jihadists in conjunction with the Taliban that ruled Afghanistan were expelled from power. The target of the U. S. attack was obviously Osama bin Laden, the man who funded and organized the al Qaeda. After 9/11 it was believed that bin Laden had stolen away into the cave-disguised mountains high above Kabul, but immediately contiguous to Pakistan.
Bob Woodward reported in his book and now McClellan confirms in his that the president believed that he had a calling to bring democracy to the Middle East. In other words, forget all about the weapons of mass destruction; forget all about the mushroom shaped cloud that both Bush and Rice presented to the American people as a result of failing to move against Iraq; forget about the yellow cake uranium Saddam Hussein’s government was attempting to buy from Niger; forget all about the support that Bush, Cheney and Rice insisted Hussein was giving to al Qaeda and his support to the Islamists who spear headed 9/11; forget all about the training grounds and the financial support Saddam Hussein was accused by the Bush administration of lending to the terrorists. From the McClellan perspective, they were all lies. It all came down to George W. Bush’s insane idea that he was the agent of God to bring democracy to the Middle East and that Iraq was the logical place to start.
McClellan was told by the President that through the use “coercive democracy’ that was to include preemptive invasions, change of regimes in countries under the control of tyrants and manipulation of the Intelligence from within the CIA and the DOD to corroborate America’s military actions.
This country was used like a handful of play dough by Bush, Cheney, Rice and the Neoconservatives many of whom, by the way, are working on the McCain campaign staff today.
Beware of old men with white hair who have changed their position on every major issue confronting our country, who have flip flopped and/or adopted the Bush policy on the war in Iraq, tax cuts for the top 1% of the U. S. population, refusal to pass a revised benefit package for the soldiers who have fought in Afghanistan and Iraq and still call themselves patriotic.
Beware of seventy-one year old men still wearing the marine outfit as the uniform of the day. They are a danger to themselves and to our country.
