Democrats use McClellan tome against McCain
No surprise, but Democrats are trying to make hay from former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's explosive tell-all book, accusing John McCain of being part of what McClellan calls a "propaganda" campaign to sell the Iraq war.
The Democratic National Committee released a new web video today that features McClellan promoting his book in TV appearances Thursday, then shows McCain parroting Bush administration talking points in the run-up to the war. The 1-minute video shows McCain saying that Saddam Hussein presented a "clear and present danger" and that US troops would be "welcomed as liberators."
"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," DNC spokesman Damien LaVera said in a statement accompanying the video. "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?"
While the faltering economy has surpassed the war on the minds of voters, there is no divide wider between both Democrats and McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, than on what do in Iraq. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both pledge to withdraw US combat troops early in their first term, while McCain describes that as surrender, and has talked of keeping troops in Iraq for 50 or 100 years as peacekeepers.
It's more than time that McCain's pro-war stance comes home to roost. It was a bad idea then, and it is not getting any better with time. McCain liked being part of the team and taking credit for going to war, and so, he should take some of the heat for bad ideas that have only gotten worse. It is such a relief that after all this time of towing the line, some of the players, such as McClellan, are finally letting their own minds and conscience speak. Apart from being a disastrous war, the whole Iraq war thing was an economic disaster as well, both for the US and for Iraq. The US economic fall is a horrible mark against McCain, as the war has seriously impacted our economy.
Scott McClellan is a liar and a traitor as are all of the cowards who covered up the crimes of this administration. His sudden attack of honesty and the supposed growth of a conscience are difficult to stomach.
John Sidney McCain the III along with with warmongering and being a gun ho supporter of the fraud Iraq war and still wanting the BS victory when there is nothing to win in Iraq has one too many elitist parallels with Bush and the like. Like Bush born with a sliver spoon in his mouth , McCain as son ad grand son of admirals has had preferential treatment all his life starting with his admission to the Naval Academy, where like Bush he graduated at the bottom of his class. He by his war heroic and patriotic needs to bomb Vietnamese to heel, he destroyed two fighter jets. He is firm war monger and has no remorse what so ever about this country's unprecedented BS war on Vietnam that was also started with fraud motives. Despite over 70% of this nation being against this fraud war in Iraq, McCain insists on its continuation and the cost of over $14 billion a month. THe money that can be used to impvove here at homeon a mon
It is no secret that George Bush and his coharts have lied to us for years.
McCain is just another one that has sold us out to the special interest
groups. If McCain is the president , and he will be,
God help my Grandchildren
WHILE THE FOURTH ESTATE WAS ASLEEP
A TRUTH, and not from McClellan’s actions.
Not much will surprise us about this Administration. There is, however, more to be learned here from McClellan's actions or lack thereof.
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/05/lesson-from-scott-mcclellan.html
Come on all you idiots with your comments so far Scott Mcclellan was and is a dishonest public servant period.Now he wrote a book who wants to read a dishonest employee/public servants crab.Wow who does he think he is,president of the United States? Sorry man but you are out of your mind.And now the other fools Liberal Media/Liberal Democrats think they can use this dishonest public servants crab to fool us as well,sorry Liberals drink your own kind of medicine it taste awful and nasty.
Well, we hear it now straight from the horse’s mouth, if that’s the right part of the animal’s anatomy. Unfortunately, it’s again the same scenario, like retired generals beating their breasts after the fact: the press secretary, privy to the highest levels of decision-making, who might have spoken up and made a difference, now finds the bravery to speak up once he is no longer in danger of losing his job. For more on the about the sin of malfeasance, so common to those in charge of the Iraq war fiasco, see my blog, The Wrath of McGrath, at http://www.thewrathofmcgrath.com.
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