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Dems use McClellan’s words
Well this didn’t take long.
The Democratic National Committee quickly has cobbled together a 60-second video to take advantage of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s accusations that President Bush misled the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq.
The DNC’s point? “John McCain was a key part of the Bush Administration’s efforts to misrepresent the threat posed by Iraq and make war look like ‘the only feasible option.’”
Those last four words are from McClellan’s book in which he says the administration orchestrated a propaganda campaign to make invading Iraq look like “the only feasible option.”
“This week, the American people are getting a fresh look at John McCain’s key role in the propaganda machine that Scott McClellan describes in his book,” said DNC spokesman Damien LaVera. “Given that he was part of the drumbeat that misled America into war and continues to misrepresent the facts as he defends his willingness to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years, how can Senator McCain be trusted to not continue the Bush policy of cherry picking the facts on the ground in Iraq and misleading the American people?”
Comments
By Alex
May 30, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Didn’t Scott’s father, Barr McCellan write a a book alleging that Lyndon B. Johnson was a conspirator in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Sounds like Scott didn’t fall far from the tree.
By Nancy
May 30, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this
Seven l-o-n-g months till the Bush reign of error is over. It will take us another 30 years to right the wrongs Bushit & Company have force fed us. Scotty Boyz book is nothing we didn’t already know; it simply places a period at the end of the sentence. I hope the whole lot burn in hades. McJustasguilty is trying to cover his a**! OBAMA ‘08
By leo
May 30, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
The integrity of it all. Why would anyone believe what he writes or says or even care? It is a non event with no new information.