McClellan

McClellan says he believed in Bush as war started

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan says he didn't object to the way the war in Iraq was sold to the American people at the time because he, like other Americans, gave the president the benefit of the doubt.

McClellan told NBC's "Today" show on Thursday that although he had worried about the rush to war, he felt affection for President Bush and trusted his foreign policy advisers.

McClellan says in his new memoir that he came to realize that the war was sold with propaganda that inflated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. He says administration officials didn't deliberately lie — but they became wrapped up in trying to shape the story to their advantage, and ignored intelligence that didn't fit the picture.

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Of course the media isn't telling that this book was published by the same publisher that publishes George Soros. Yeah, the Soros of MoveOn.org, the liberal organization that all democratic candidates have to obtain an endorsement from. McClellan's first interviews were with anti-Bush NBC (Today) and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who isn't even a journalist.

I never have cared for "kiss and tell" in real life or books, so I won't be wasting time or money on this book.