Until now, we've resisted the temptation to post on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book, which accuses the Bush White House of launching a propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq.
Why? It's not news. At least not to some of us who've covered the story from the start.
(Click here, here and here to get just a taste of what we mean).
Second, we find it a wee bit preposterous -- and we are being
diplomatic here -- that a man who slavishly - no, robotically! --
defended President Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere is trying to
"set the record straight" (and sell a few books) five years and more
after the invasion, with U.S. troops still bravely fighting and dying
to stabilize that country.
The news media have been, if anything, even more craven than the
administration has been in defending its failure to investigate Bush's
case for war in Iraq before the war.
But the responses to McClellan from the Bush administration and
media bigwigs, history-bending as they are, compel us to jump in. As we
like to say around here, it's truth to power time, not just for the politicians but also for some folks in our own business.
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