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Scott McClennan Amazingly Capable of Independent Thought!

If you haven't heard yet, former Press Secretary Scott McClennan is releasing a book that promises to be the first real negative attack on the Bush Administration from someone inside the Bush White House. In the book, McClennan writes, in part:

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." (Source)

Nope, Scott. The decision to invade Iraq was definitely the biggest mistake of the Bush White House. Absolutely. 100 percent. No denying it. While I'm sure that the "decision to turn away from candor and honesty" was a mistake, it's the Iraq War that costs $12 billion a month. No comparison there, buddy. On the blunder meter, I think I'd put that whole candor and honesty mistake somewhere below No Child Left Behind, Hurricane Katrina, Guantanamo Bay, warrantless wiretapping, and the firing of Democrat U.S. Attorneys -- I'd put it somewhere on par with trying to sneak Harriet Meiers onto the Supreme Court, I suppose.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).