Scott McClellan's Osama love connection--revealed!

Did you know that Scott McClellan is trying to curry favor with the Democratic Party, is secretly a muslim, hates America, and actually considered traveling to Afghanistan to live closer to his spiritual mentor and unrequited love interest, Osama bin Laden?  If you didn't, you'll surely hear plenty about it after this hits the fan:

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war." ...

"Over that summer of 2002," he writes, "top Bush aides had outlined a strategy for carefully orchestrating the coming campaign to aggressively sell the war. . . . In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage."

McClellan, once a staunch defender of the war from the podium, comes to a stark conclusion, writing, "What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."

I'm glad to see this coming out, and from the horse's ass's mouth no less.  But as with Al Gore, I wonder why he couldn't have had this little bout of integrity while he was STANDING UP IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND COULD HAVE DONE SOME GOOD WITH IT, instead of saving it for five years later, after he'd personally helped to facilitate the killing of hundreds of thousands of human beings.  But I suppose that wouldn't have been professional.

It really makes you appreciate the countless unheralded acts of cowardice that are required to make crimes like this possible.

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Here's an interesting excerpt from The Times' article:

In another section, McClellan describes Bush as able to convince himself of his own spin and relates a phone call he overheard Bush having during the 2000 campaign, in which he said he could not remember whether he had used cocaine. "I remember thinking to myself, 'How can that be?' " he writes.

I think to myself it could be that Bush was the type heavy drinker back in the 80s who would get completely blitzed and do all sorts of things which he might not do otherwise and then have no recollection afterward of having done them. Therefore, if you asked him if he gave any blowjobs to his frat buddies, his honest asnwer would be that he could not remember whether he had.

Of course, that's just one explanation. Another explanation is that Bush was simply lying. Who knows?

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Re: my prior post.

I should have said back in the day rather than "back in the 80s". I may have been thinking of my own college experience which was back in the 80s. I was a very good social drinker but I do remember using cocaine a couple of times and I was not in a fraternity. Not that there's anything wrong with that.