The swiftboating of Scott McClellan by people who haven’t read his book
… like Bob Dole, Dana Perino, and GW Bush.
In typical Republican smear method of operation, Bushies are piling on Scott McClellan and attacking him personally without even considering the substance of what he is saying or even having read the book.
Why is this viewpoint which has been verified time and time again, by previous insiders, Clarke and O’Neil, by a documented Pentagon propaganda program, by military generals, why is this so hard for Bushies to admit or accept? From the book:
Bush and his advisers knew that the American people would almost certainly not support a war launched primarily for the ambitious purpose of transforming the Middle East. … Rather than open this Pandora’s box, the administration chose a different path — not employing out-and-out deception but shading the truth; downplaying the major reason for going to war and emphasizing a lesser motivation that could arguably be dealt with in other ways (such as intensified diplomatic pressure); trying to make the WMD threat and the Iraqi connection to terrorism appear just a little more certain, a little less questionable, than they were; quietly ignoring or disregarding some of the crucial caveats in the intelligence and minimizing evidence that pointed in the opposite direction; using innuendo and implication to encourage Americans to believe as fact some things that were unclear and possibly false (such as the idea that Saddam had an active nuclear weapons program) and other things that were overplayed or completely wrong (such as implying Saddam might have an operational relationship with al Qaeda).
Yea, you can call him every name in the book, put up clever photoshops, link to websites that try to discredit McClellan through dubious circular reasoning (he lied then, must be lyin’ now, follow the money, etc…), but in the final analysis, you have to listen to what he says and by every indication - he is 100% spot on. Unlike this post, you won’t find links or substance in these attack posts. They don’t document or refute anything, they just smear - pathetically, that’s all they can do - carry out an authoritarian agenda.
Play it again, William.
[…] Bush left office, there would be fewer dollars jumping in his pocketses. Scott knows that the frothing liberals who will buy it are ripe for the plucking; one of the symptoms of BDS is the rabid acceptance of anyone who agrees […]
McClellan “swiftboated” people for doing the same thing. Credibility, where art thou? Oh yeah, #1 on the Amazon pre-order list.
Yes Mikey, and he apologized. Do we hear any apologies from the Bushcult denialists like yourself, that you just might have been wrong? I don’t think so, thats the difference.
Apology for what? Calling McClellan an opportunist who was too much of a coward to testify when it mattered, but a brave soul who is now speaking truth to power in a book he’s hawking?
You’re such a gullible tool, William. Maybe one day you’ll realize how much you’re being used by those you believe in.
Yea, you haven’t got a fuckin’ leg to stand you stupid fat fuck. If I’m wrong, then so are all of the career Republican generals that have spoken out about Bush’s incompetence, the Pentagon that willfully discontinued their propaganda program when caught red handed, the umpteen ongoing investigations of the Bush administration, the judges that convicted dozens of corrupt Abramoff republicans, the Center for Public Integrity that documented 935 Bushco lies, the US Congressional oversight website that documented the 237 Bushco lies on Iraq, McClellan and others who know the president who admitted illegally declassifying intel to smear a CIA agent, need I go on? And you say I am gullible, HAHAHAHA! Go eat have a cheezbuger and a shake, things will be fine.
Always the class act, William. You’re a real asset to higher education. Your contributions to civil discourse will certainly be heralded as legendary.
The model of compassion, calling people “fat fuck”. Or calling me “bald”. You screwed that up so badly you had to do a big “expose” on your website to try and prove your point that.. I’m fat.
I must be hitting some kind of nerve. How’s that “illegal war” treating ya? Especially that Iraq is becoming more stable and less violent. Why, it’s like we’re winning…
Winning what?
My, my, my. It never changes. The leftists, ignoring all English language posts to the contrary, continue to use their binoculars to spot “bushies” (whatever the beejeebers those are) on this website, looking hither and yon for any signs of Southern, religious, white, conservative posts who might LIKE ONE THING THAT BUSH HAS DONE which under the Sock Monkey rules make them the leftoid target de jour. One thing I have learned — admittedly, it took me a while — is that there is NOBODY, absolutely, positively NOBODY who is more narrow-minded than a leftist/leftoid. It dawned on me about 15 years ago that the right wingers I so despised weren’t the sole owners of this planetary mind-set that only THEY are correct. Only leftoids (as opposed to merely “liberals” who at least can conduct a rational conversation) have enlightened, “progressive” views of the way things ought to be. I’m pre-PC, post-hippie, former Viet Nam war protestor with no patience for the horse hockey of today’s Parrotheads (and I don’t mean Jimmy Buffett’s buddies) who carry the “candle of peace” in the left hand and the “cudgel of correct thinking” in the right, bashing as best they can whenever somebody linguistically betters them. McClellan’s late-to-the-post self-serving “revelations” are the equivalent of Jeremiah Wright’s racist ranting. Irrelevant. Those of us who realize we can only choose the LEAST of evils in this presidential race already cynically accept that something as mild as “committing a crime” doesn’t bar anyone’s presidency — as anyone who ever so much as mildly supported Willie Jeff Clinton’s perjurying, criminal tongue and his wagging, cigar-holding index finger will have to admit, that is, if they aren’t one more tiresome two-faced, hypocritcal leftoid.
We got a live one. Reel ‘er in, boys.
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Grits,
you are a low life scumsucker for portraying those that oppose the criminal civialian leadership to be unpatriotic and anti-military.
We are trying to help the military by releasing them from the service of these swine which you are defending like a fascist whore.