Another damaging memoir
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will soon release a damaging memoir of his years in the Bush Administration. Among the "revelations," which are revelations perhaps only to Bush's dwindling numbers of true believers: the President used propaganda to sell the Iraq War, the Bush Administration was in a "state of denial" for a week after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, and the administration wasn't honest about the involvement of Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the retaliation against CIA agent Valerie Plame for her husband's truth-telling about some of the events leading up to the Iraq War. Bush is proclaimed guilty of massive self-deception. Here's an even more detailed story about the book from Cox Newspapers.
Didn't know any of that, did you? Ha! Of course, what makes McClellan's memoir valuable is exactly that: it confirms from deep inside of the worst presidential administration in history what many on the outside already knew or strongly suspected. It it one more step in the consignment of George W. Bush and his administration to historical ignominy. Future historians will be hard-pressed to name one positive accomplishment of the Bush Administration (which wasn't at all true of President Richard M. Nixon, for all his crimes). They will spend careers detailing the pits and excesses, driving home the point again and again that America must never be led or forced--take your pick--down this path again.