Ex-Presidential Aide Publicly Blast President

Scott McClellan, President Bush’s aide for ten years is breaking his silence and speaking, rather writing about the Presidents decisions over his term in his new book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.

In the book McClellan writes about how the president used mostly propaganda to gain support for the war. Using weapons of mass destruction as a cover to create panic for the war. He also goes on to disclose other issues that plagued the Bush administration like the “Scooter” Libby and Karl Rove fiasco’s.

Here is an excerpt from the book regarding hurricane Katrina:

“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,” he writes. “And the perception of this catastrophe was made worse by previous decisions President Bush had made, including, first and foremost, the failure to be open and forthright on Iraq and rushing to war with inadequate planning and preparation for its aftermath.”

McClellan, who has been with Bush practically from the beginning and has always admired the president, went on to write:

“I still like and admire President Bush,” McClellan writes. “But he and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war. … In this regard, he was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security.”

Seems this book will answer a lot of the questions that clouded the Presidents term and give clarity to why the country took the turn it did.

Source:
Politico