Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan in his new memoir, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception", describes how Bush relied on a "political propaganda campaign" rather than the truth to sell the Iraq war to the US public. The invasion was "unecessary", he suggests, a "strategic blunder", with Bush having made up his mind early on to attack Saddam Hussein (Ibid). The way Bush managed the issue "almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option" (http://ap-google.com/article/ALeqM5g...1xBqwD90UNQ201)

McClellan adds:

"In the permenant campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage" (Ibid). According to McClellan, Bush has little time for policy detail. "He prefers to follow his gut feelings on foreign affairs, about which ne knew next to nothing when he took office. Since then, he has lived in a kind of 'bubble' that isolates him from the real world." As McClellan put it in a recent interview "only as you leave the White House bubble, can you take off your partisan hat and take a clear-eyed view of things." (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052803135.html)

well im sure we all look forward to hear what he has to say under oath.
should it ever reach that point.

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