The Bush White House and their culture of deception

And the big story today, former White House Press-tool Scott McClellan blasts Il DuceBag, his handlers and enablers -- especially Satan's porcine handmaiden Karl Rove -- and the supine White House press corpse.

One of his charges? That the lying aWol McWarMonkey deceived the country and relied on propaganda to sell his war in Iraq:

[T]he Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated and aggressive political propaganda campaign led by pResident Evil and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war."

Now he tells us moron-America.

Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that [Tipsy McStaggers] “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.

“If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq."

“History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.”

“The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.”

Swell. No fucking kidding. Maybe if he had any conscience whatsoever he would've brought this stuff up years ago. Anyhoo, read more here. And here, as Snott reveals he first became aware of Preznit Honor an' Integritude's habit of lying when the stories of his wild, cocaine-fueled party days came out -- and the Codpieced Cowpuke said he couldn't remember.

A disgruntled misadministration replies --

"Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House," current press-tool Dana Peroxide said in a statement. "For those of us who fully supported him, we are puzzled. It is sad — this is not the Scott we knew. The one we knew was a pussy-assed milquetoast entirely lacking in spunk and decency, one we would never consider retaliating against on all the news and talk shows, thereby destroying him and his family."

(Slightly paraphased for clarity).

Well, better late than never, Snotty. Heckuva job!



Update: the rethugs are all over CNN right now trashing him. Quelle surprise.