Timing of this book is rather interesting-first time one of Bush's insiders has written something rather poorly of him.
"Former
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that
President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html
"PHOENIX — President Bush “convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment,” and has engaged in “self-deception” to justify his political ends,
Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, writes in a critical new memoir about his years in the West Wing.
In addition, Mr. McClellan writes, the decision to invade Iraq was a “serious strategic blunder,” and yet, in his view, it was not the biggest mistake the Bush White House made. That, he says, was “a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/wa...rUps1awejEaEkw
"WASHINGTON -- The White House took part in an "endless effort to manipulate public opinion to their advantage" in promoting the invasion of Iraq, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan declares in a new book.
Mr. McClellan says that he "unknowingly passed along false information" in his press briefings, including strong denials from Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby that they had no role in the outing of Central Intelligence Agency spy Valerie Plame.
He also claims that Messrs. Rove and Libby, who rarely spent time together, held a secret meeting behind closed doors as speculation mounted that they had conspired to reveal Ms. Plame's identity.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1211...ys_us_page_one