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Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book “What Happened” offers one of the most candid accounts of life within the administration since President Bush assumed office in January 2001.
It is important to remember that everything Scott McClellan says should be taken with a grain of salt–he is, afterall, a former master of spin for the Bush administration who is writing a book designed to sell a lot of copies. Given his pension to lie for Bush, it is unlikely McClellan is being entirely truthful in this book.
McClellen even goes so far as to blame the ‘liberal media’ for allowing the administration to send the country to a war he helped sell:

If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

The Republican attack machine - led by former Bush advisor Karl Rove - has launched a full-scale campaign to smear and discredit McClellan.
Given the secretive nature of the Bush administration, it’s surprising more revealing accounts like these haven’t surfaced yet. Expect this to change as the sun sets on Bush’s time in the White House over the next eight months. Once it leaves power in January 2009, the Bush administration will no longer have the bully pulpit of the presidency at their disposal to manipulate and cover-up the truth.

Here is one of McClellan’s more telling quotes from the book:

As I worked closely with President Bush, I would come to believe that sometimes he convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment. It is not unlike a witness in court who does not want to implicate himself in wrongdoing, but is also concerned about perjuring himself. So he says, ‘I do not recall.’ The witness knows no one can get into his head and prove it is not true, so this seems like a much safer course than actually lying. Bush, similarly, has a way of falling back on the hazy memory defense to protect himself from potential political embarrassment. Bush rationalizes it as being acceptable because he is not stating unequivocally anything that could be proven false. If something later is uncovered to show what he knew, then he can deny lying in his own mind.

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Washington, D.C. - The Pentagon has announced it plans to send 39,000 soldiers to Iraq to replace troops scheduled to leave the theater — a move that should sustain current U.S. troop levels.

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Moscow - Russia showcased its military might and new president to the world Friday in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era. More than 100 combat vehicles, including intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, rolled across the cobblestone Red Square and strategic bombers and fighter jets soared overhead in the first such display in 18 years.

In a nationally broadcast speech two days after his inauguration, President Dmitry Medvedev avoided the bellicose rhetoric of his mentor and predecessor, Vladimir Putin.

However, in his speech marking victory over Adolf Hitler’s Germany, the 42-year-old Medvedev said World War II - a conflict that saw over 26 million Russian soldiers killed - demonstrated that military conflicts are rooted Read the full story

Moscow - The Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, has confirmed Vladimir Putin as prime minister a day after his protege Dmitry Medvedev replaced him as president of the country.

Members of parliament voted 392-56 for Putin’s appointment, with the communists the only party voting against.

In a fervent speech to the Russian Parliament, Mr Putin said that he would cut oil taxes to stimulate growth and predicted that Russia would overtake Britain to become the world’s sixth-largest economy this year.

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A day after she was blown out in North Carolina and barely won Indiana - two states she needed to win convincingly - news broke that Senator Hillary Clinton has had to loan her campaign another $6.4 million dollars. Clinton has now loaned over $11 million to her campaign since February–yet another sign her presidential bid is on life support.