Some nuggets from the former Bush press secretary's new book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. Get ready to be shocked:"McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war."
He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
So with all this candor comes the denial, captured here: “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.”
He still likes and admires the guy?
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