In the memoir due out next week, McClellan also says Bush relied on
"propaganda" to sell the war and says the Wa****ngton press corps was too
easy on the administration during the run-up to it, according to the Web
site.
McClellan's 341-page book, titled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White
House and Wa****ngton's Culture of Deception," takes a much harsher tone
than
White House officials had expected from the president's former aide,
Politico re****ted.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/pl_nm/bush_book_dc_3;_ylt=Ah.WN2odcaPr2kaIN67kRZUE1vAI
Bush was not "forthright" on Iraq: ex White House spokesman
Wed May 28, 12:34 AM ET
WA****NGTON (Reuters) - Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan
says in a new book that President George W. Bush "veered terribly off
course" and was not "open and forthright on Iraq," Politico.com re****ted
on
Tuesday.
In the memoir due out next week, McClellan also says Bush relied on
"propaganda" to sell the war and says the Wa****ngton press corps was too
easy on the administration during the run-up to it, according to the Web
site.
McClellan also takes the administration to task for its performance after
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, saying the White House "spent
most
of the first week in a state of denial," Politico re****ted.
According to the Web site, McClellan blames former Bush senior adviser
Karl
Rove for the photo of the president seen observing the disaster during an
Air Force One flyover.
"One of the worst disasters in our nation's history became one of the
biggest disasters in Bush's presidency. Katrina and the botched federal
response to it would largely come to define Bush's second term," Politico
quoted the book as saying.
McClellan's 341-page book, titled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White
House and Wa****ngton's Culture of Deception," takes a much harsher tone
than
White House officials had expected from the president's former aide,
Politico re****ted.
The White House declined comment.
In the memoir, McClellan is said to claim that Rove and Lewis "Scooter"
Libby, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, misled him about their
role in the CIA leak case. Libby was convicted last year on charges
related
to the investigation into who blew the cover of former CIA analyst Valerie
Plame, whose husband was an outspoken Iraq war critic.
McClellan served as White House press secretary from July 2003 to April
2006. A long-time Bush loyalist and fellow Texan, he said that he still
likes and admires the president and that Bush was ill-served by top
advisors.
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