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President Used Propaganda To Push Iraq War

As President Bush’s second term in office nears an end former Whitehouse staffers are revealing what most people already know by now, that President Bush used propaganda and spin to push forward the invasion of Iraq.

With book deals bringing in millions these days and the President’s days in office numbered former administration officials seem far less reluctant to spill the beans than when they were “deceived” while in office.

In excerpts from a 341-page book to be released Monday, Scott McClellan, former Whitehouse press secretary, writes on Iraq that Bush “and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war.”

“In this regard, he was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security,” McClellan wrote.

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The presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain, hits the Democratic front-runner Barack Obama for suggesting that the US should be willing to talk to Raul Castro of Cuba. In a speech scheduled this morning in Miami, Florida to mark Cuba’s Independence Day, McCain says Obama is misguided for wanting to ease the US trade embargo. Florida, of course, is the home to a large number of Cuban Americans who have fled Castro’s Cuba and McCain’s remarks are tailored to pander to this group of dissident voters.

The long term US policy towards Cuba under Fidel Castro has always been a punitive policy. The US trade embargo has probably caused as much hardship and suffering within Cuba as anything that Fidel Castro, and now his brother Raul, has ever done. Yet the US shows no signs of changing this failed policy.

Here is a rare inside look at a briefing of President Bush by Connie Rice which takes place inside the Whitehouse Oval office. These seems to be a major communcation challenge that is taking place. Connie must love briefing this President.

OK, Ok, I admit that it is a parody of a Rice Presidential briefing but Hu is the new president of China anyhow? Hu?

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