"The former White House
Spokesman's book has greatly fueled suspicions shared by much of the world. … Since
the international press is already out with hammer and tong for another go at
the Bush lobby, he will come out the stronger."
IT SEEMS that the outside
world is less surprised than the White House about former Bush aide Scott
McClellan's coming clean, after suffering what appears to have been an uneasy
conscience. Though a good number of neocon-insiders
have abandoned Bush’s ship of state over the long years of the war on terror,
McClellan is unique. The former White House Spokesman's book has greatly fueled
suspicions shared by much of the world. From one who has been so close to the
president since his days as the governor of Texas, charges that the Bush team deliberately
formulated a false propaganda campaign to unleash an unjust war responsible for
unprecedented misery is nothing short of damning.
Yet the White House has still
has much to play with in its own defense. The simplest counter-argument is
McClellan's sudden change of heart - pointing to his often stubborn defense of
Bush’s policies when he was drumming the official line. Even those who have
given up the ill-fated neoconservative campaign have understandably sided with
the White House, questioning McClellan's past unflinching support and failure
to come out into the open earlier.
MCCLELLAN ON KIETH OBERMAN'S
COUNTDOWN
But however strongly Bush
& Co react, McClellan is likely to have the last laugh, not least because
the increasing controversy will translate into more sales for his book. Since
the international press is already out with hammer and tong for another go at
the Bush lobby, he will come out the stronger. Hatred for the Iraq War is at an
all time high, with record numbers even inside the United States strongly
questioning the rationale for a campaign that was clearly a very poorly planned
one.
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
If you ask the Iraqis, who’ve
had to bear the brunt of Bush’s folly, Saddam would no doubt now come across as
a much more likeable person than Bush. That says a lot about the U.S.
president, whose saber-rattling and war-mongering were
said to be intended to bring peace, security and democracy to more of the
world.
