President Used Propaganda To Push Iraq War

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.

McClellan wrote that he believes he told untruths on Bush’s behalf in the case of CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose identity was leaked to the media. “I had allowed myself to be deceived into unknowingly passing along a falsehood,” he wrote. “It would ultimately prove fatal to my ability to serve the president effectively.”

The floodgate on inside stories will probably really open fully once Bush is out of office. Those who served in the Bush administration will likely be eager to point the finger in Bush’s direction and try to distance themselves from all of the missteps and blunders in what will probably go down in the history books as the most corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent administration in American history.

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