Fallout from McClellan book: The Iraq war's "complicit enablers," then and now

As McClellan began making the rounds of television news interviews, former White House counselor Dan Bartlett described the book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washingtons Culture of Deception, as total crap and called the ex-press secretarys actions beyond the pale. Former White House counter-terror aide Frances Townsend told CNN that McClellan was self-serving, disingenuous and unprofessional.

Meanwhile, both Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton worked McClellans book into their Democratic presidential campaigns.

Clinton lionized McClellan, declaring this young man essentially apologizes for having been part of misleading America for three years. He talks about how difficult it was that our president and those working with him didnt, either level with the American people, or didnt change course when circumstances demanded it.

Apparently anxious to shift the subject from the run-up to the Iraq war, when Clinton was one of the majority of Democrats in the Senate voting Bush a blank check to invade Iraq, she continued: There isnt any doubt that President Bush has misled us. The question now is, what kind of president do we need going forward.

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