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How can anybody have a valid opinion. Nobody has read the book.

I talked to someone who has seen a peak at the book and they said it's much ado about nothing and that the press is really spinning it as usual.

Also, I think Scott saw Ari Fleisher's book when it came out, saw that no one cared about it in the mainstream media and knew he'd have to juice it up to get media attention.

And last but not least, I just think it's really sad what he's done. Bush did not openly endorse his mother in the Texas governor's race - he stayed neutral because he's friends with Rick Perry, so Scott probably has sour grapes.

I also do not believe Scott had as much access to able to make all these so called "scathing" conclusions.

Again, much ado about nothing. Yawn.

Finally, someone from the George W. Bush White House is actually telling the TRUTH!

Re Scott McLellan's book - if you listen to how he was exited out, he was a changed man. He was in effect thrown under the bus. He knew THEN, what he was going to do - he was a kind, gentle smart, clever man. The best revenge is in the written word. Unfortunately, while it will get him a ton of press now, the price in lost friendships, a tainted legacy, etc, I hope the money is worth it, whether his view is the truth or just his spin. Why - becuase as the press comes out on this book and everyone weighs in - one can't help but see the old adage coming true - revenge is a dish best served cold. s it worth it in the long run? Revenge rarely turns out as it was hoped, we all have experience at least once, exacting revenge then feeling empty afterward. If this makes his conscience feel good, if the revenge was worth it - good for him. - Jim Russell, Bartlett, IL

What does it take to get impeached these days?

It seems to be a case of a mediocre man who never once protested because he wasn't privy to decision making. Now he is a back stabbing, ungrateful, and pathetic person for dumping his bitterness out on the world.
Disgusting!

This is just the latest in a long line of "insiders" that have come out to tell of the abuses of this administration. My question has been and still remains WHY have these guys NOT been impeached? WHERE is MSM when you need them? Out chasing Brittney Spears? Scott, it's about time you became part of a solution, and not just another part of the problem... Propaganda from OUR government!? Oh my!
WAKE UP AMERICA.

John Kerry had it right way back in 2004, "These guys are as crooked as a dog's hind leg"... And Scott McLellan's conscience finally got the best of him.... Too bad he couldn't 'man up' when we needed him... Sleep well Scott, you did good...

I think that Scott McClellan has every right to speak about what he saw during his time in The White House. If people don't want to read the book than don't buy it.

Writing a nice book about Bush doesn't sell well. Ask Ari Fleischer. The media yawned. Scott knew what he had to do. He even knew Richard Clarke was doing it with his book when he said the following in 2004:

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, why, all of a sudden, if he (Richard Clarke) had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book."

Touche, Scott, touche.

Shame on mr.mcclellan. How dare he attempt to chastize a sitting President with a book of trash. As long as President Bush is in office, he deserves nothing but high respect from the media and also the American people. Doesn't the US look bad enough with all the infighting within our politicians?? The terrorists around the world are loving this disgusting display of simple greed. What happened to patriotism? Our people are fighting abroad and we need to stand together and support them. Don't contribute to this lunacy by buying this book or listening to anything this idiot has to say on his press tour.

Good for Mr Mc Clellan. It's about time that somebody started telling the truth.
Everything about Bush's entire term has been propaganda to put FEAR into the American people, so that he can Destroy our Constitution! It was clear as a bell on 9-11-01 that it was all a scripted "Live From New York" event to get to gain power as a World Concering Country. That's probably why he was nowhere to be found for three days when JFK Jr's plane was missing in 99.
Pray For Ted Kennedy! Impeach BUSH!!!

RIGHT ON, SCOTT!!! JUST A LITTLE LATE! IF HE HAD SPOKEN UP WHEN ROVE AND CHENEY LIED TO HIM ABOUT VALERIE PLAME, HE MIGHT HAVE HELPED US MOVE TO A QUICK IMPEACHMENT OF AT LEAST CHENEY, IF NOT BUSH! BUT BETTER LATE, THAN NEVER!

Scott didn't have enough access to the president to make most of these so-called "scathing" claims in the book. And that's just the fact.

Poor Scott. Sour grapes must taste really bad.

Patricia, uh you have that backasswards as usual.

It was Joe Wilson & Valerie Plame who lied. Ask the senate committee who investigated them.

Next.

Valerie Plame "I did not recommend my husband for the mission"

Joe Wilson "My wife did NOT recommend me for the mission"

Oops. Memo unearthed shows that Valerie Plame INDEED did recommend her husband for the mission.

Case closed. Pronounced liars by the senate committee who investigated the whole thing.

Nice try though. Revisionist history doesn't really work though.

The Supreme Court, The President, The Vice President, The Republican Party, and all those who voted for Bush, should admit they are wrong, The War was wrong, and apologize to the Troops, and their Families, and the American People. They should all hang their heads in shame. Thank You Scott McClellan. You are a TRUE TEXAN. And, a True American. You, have washed your hands of this blood of our soldiers, in the War For Profit in Iraq.

Has Bush ever admitted he was wrong about anything???

After all, he has the lowest aproveal rating of any President since George Washington...
Do you want to have this debate in a vacuum????

Dr. J
from Dallas

The Supreme Court, The President, The Vice President, The Republican Party, and all those who voted for Bush, should admit they are wrong, The War was wrong, and apologize to the Troops, and their Families, and the American People. They should all hang their heads in shame. Thank You Scott McClellan. You are a TRUE TEXAN. And, a True American. You, have washed your hands of this blood of our soldiers, in the War For Profit in Iraq.

Has Bush ever admitted he was wrong about anything???

After all, he has the lowest approval rating of any President since George Washington...
Do you want to have this debate in a vacuum????

Dr. J

The memoir was obviously revealing, but why not come out earlier? If McClellan felt so acute towards President Bush and his views why not quit instead of putting a name on something that brings up so much controversy and that can't be at all entirely true or proven to be true? Why sell a book that says you can't live your words and or values? It is really hard to agree with or even believe someone who didn't have the guts to stand up for what he believed in.

Dr. J, the lowest approval rating since Washington? LOL. That's hilarious. I didn't know they polled since Washington.

And you're so right, that's why McCain is getting creamed in any matches between either Hillary or Obama.

Oh wait, he's not. Bush's not as unpopular as you all claim. If he were, McCain would be getting pummeled. He's not. Case closed.

Do you want to have this debate in a vacuum????

The Supreme Court, The President, The Vice President, The Republican Party, and all those who voted for Bush, should admit they are wrong, The War was wrong. They should apologize to the Troops, and Their Families, and The American People. They should all hang Their heads in shame. Thank You Scott McClellan. You are a TRUE TEXAN. And, a True American. You, have washed your hands of this blood of our soldiers who fight the War For Profit in Iraq.

By the way...Has Bush ever admitted he was wrong about anything???

After all, he has the lowest approval rating of any President in U.S. History.

Dr. J

P.S. The democrat controlled congress has lower ratings than Bush.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Tee Hee.

Can you imagine a foreign leader sending his military into America, destroying our country and killing a million of us in an attempt to "bless" us with with a different political system and to "achieve greatness" for himself through war? The only appropriate place for such a man and his entire sordid crew would be a war crimes tribunal followed by prison cells,in my humble opinion. Because it is happening to "others" however, rather than to us, it's all acceptable and accountability is unnessary. Right? I thank and respect the man for at least doing the unthinkable - telling the truth to the people.

It's about time! And it's only the beginning. Historians will be digging and trying to uncover the truth for prosperity; this book turns over the first stone. I imagine history will show a personal agenda - the real reason this administration invaded Iraq and how they deliberately misled Americans by implicating Iraq as a co-conspirator to the terrorist attack on 9/11, as well as creating the fear of an attack using WMDs against us by Saddam Hussein. I wonder how far the conspiracy by this administration really goes; did they deliberately 'lose' intelligence that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks? We had been watching the 9/11 conspirators all along and had extensive intelligence - we knew that something was imminent; how and why did this administration totally overlook all of it? And so much more we'd like to know. So thanks to McLellan for stepping up to the plate and giving us this first look from "inside." The facts must have been eating away at him - the book sets him free.

only in the junior george bush world is telling the truth become the worst sin of all

With what's at stake in the world right now, this is certainly the right time for THE TRUTH (sooner would have been better). But what is the truth? Right now only the Bush insiders know, but based on the mounting evidence and the possibility of numerous investigations into the actions of the Bush adminstration I suspect Bush's legacy will very fittingly mark the end of what Nixon started 40 years ago (deception, division and dishonor to the highest office in The United States of America).
Michael Tolbert, Tyler, TX

Scot McClellan hasn't said anything that we don't already know. The problem is that he, like the rest of the media, held back on information that could have put pressure on the Bush administration to end this war and save innocent lives. These two-bit journalists that interview these politicians know they that they are liars and won't challenge them and hold their feet to the fire. They (journalist) withold information and won't inform the public until after someone is out of office or dead. Who needs to know it then? There use to be a time I trusted and respected journalist, and the media, but not anymore. They will lie and defend the politicians of their choice. I've watched a many an interview of political figures, and they can't speak 10 words without lying. And the journalist doing the interview won't challenge them. America has done a lot of wrong in other countries and always try to hide behind the cloak of "national security". Iraq was Bush's personal agenda and he hid behind national security. He is guilty of mass murder, war crimes, and should be impeached, convicted, and put on death row along with all of his staff. Everyone knows that the Republican Party is the party of hate, division, racism, hypocrisy, war, exclusion, tyrannism, imperialism, and last but least stupidity. So, there are a lot of Americans in this same condition. When I look back on history, I see that every great civilization failed, and this country is on the brink.

We must first tried to sort this---is he lying now or was he lying back then?
If what has been reported about the book is true--then the author should be held accountable to us, the American people. Maybe it could fall in a category of commitrting treason during wartime. The real reason he trashed such a good man and his "friend?" of many years ----GREED--- selling books, making money from lies, throwing a friend to the wolves (DNC, "Main" ha ha ha PRESS). I will not give this subhuman any of my money by buying his trash!!!!!!!!!

The reports i've read relating to the book and charges made have pretty much been trickeling out for quite some time from other sources.no less a personage than Walter Cronkite was on record as saying that the media had given this administration a free ride and Mr Bush was caught in lies on many occasions such as when he said who knew ? on the levees in New Orleans and then a tape indicating that he'd been warned before Katrina about their inability to hold also indications by terrorist czar Clarke that intelligence in fact had warned Bush about threats from Al-qaida beforehand and the cabinet member from the treasury stating that prior to the war Mr.Bush said "i want Saddam and you find me the way to get him." that pretty much in itself tells you about the fabrication of the whole war. Had the media given the attention and focus to the many outright lies dirty tactics and illegal activities of this administration instead of being intimidated they might not have appeared complisate as they most certainly do.

If people had only researched Bush and Cheney's past endeavors prior to their first election, I don't believe they would have ever been elected. Just a few trips to the library. But then again, Americans seem to only look at the package and not the contents. I believe their master plan was to dominate the Middle East one step at a time; Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Iran, then Syria and so on if needed. Total domination, total control, the good old neocon way.
Thanks Mr. McClellan for opening the lid a little wider.

Our History is so slanted sometimes because many times people on the inside are afraid to step up and tell the truth. We see what happens and how they are attacked systematically when they do. I thank Scott McClellan for validating what so many people already know about this administration. What they did to the American people is criminal. I hope his reasons for writing this are for more than money - but I realize he will need it to survive because no one will want to hire him on the Republican side for quite a long time. I believe the man's conscience was getting the best of him and he had to step up and do the right thing. This is not about back-stabbing the Bush administration, because the ones that were really back stabbed by this Administration are the Amereican People. Thank you Scott McClellan. It's always right to do the right thing.

I believe Scott McClellan now. I don't think he felt able or willing to speak out when he worked in the Whitehouse.

I only wish that he would have mentioned this before writing the book. It would give him a bit more credibility. I am glad that he is speaking out now.

Knowing how the republicans operate, is it any wonder that Scott never expressed any oposition opinions while he was employed by them. Can you imagine what they would have done? Talk about throwing somebody under the bus, they would not only have done that, they would have then backed over him. He did the right thing by keeping his mouth shut until he was away from them. And, whenever I hear someone being described as "disgruntled", I've got to figure, there is some element of guilt and/or truth behind those
allegations.

Have a nice rest of your life, Scott. U deserve it.
Who wud've thought that there was a fox elected to guard the hen house.
It sure dredged up the robots who never saw a republican prez that they would not follow over any cliff. It sure has a benefit...ex-white house folk have finally awakened, even if only to say script generated things.
Kinda explains the house of chaos. Ole
Karli wants to shift blame on the messenger...who put the coins in him to
wind him up.

I think that with what I have seen about the book so far. Shows what many have known since the begining. If only the democrats had any kind of backbone Bush wouldn't have gone nearly as far as he did. I think now is the time for a trial against the entire Bush administration. The charge of Treason comes to mind and the inaction of our government has caused this economy. George W. and Chaney are the head of the snake of this government the entire administration going back to 2000 should be charged with treason. If convicted they should surrender all benifits of thier offices and all the money they made since in office. Including all the money they made off the war and what thier families made off the war.

I can see from the posts there is one bush backer. Someone that seems to think Bush is a good man that is is a great president. If that is so JO then tell me something do you have a family member in the armed forces in Iraq? Have you lost a family member in Iraq? I have my cousin,friend, and nephew are currently in Iraq, I lost two friends to this war. My family and friends have sacraficed blood for Bush's war. He sits in the white house and acts like we need to free the middle east of fighting and bickering that has exsisted for millennia. If you had the power would you put yourself or any family member on the front line to fight for cowards who refuse to fight for thier own freedom.

Dear Jo,

Have you ever heard of a Fillabuster???

Latasha,
Denial, ain't just a river in Egypt...

Ann,

Don't pee in my cup and tell me it's Lemonade...

Regardless of his motive for writing this courageous book,it validates what were facts to all but die hard ostriches and enablers (people who voted for Mr Bush)of the disastrous Bush eight years-- that all the fables stated to justify this disastrous for our country and the world misadventure were in fact known to Bush and his cronies to be myths.It further elucidates the real motive for the Iraq war.Since alcoholism and being born again did not fill the huge void in his self esteem,surpassing daddy and going down in history as a great president , might do so.Who gives a damn about the tens of thousand american service persons or hundreds of thousands innocent iraqui civilians(they are fellow humans,not collateral damage statistics)killed or permanently disabled. I will not mention the final bill of significally surpassing the $trillion mark down the drain.If our president was Japanese he would commit hara kiri.

As stated earlier, a way to make $ before the rest of the crowd chimes in. Of course it will be nasty . Now how soon will it be before the driver of the pres makes a tell all. The cleaning crew, or anyone else connected with the pres starts making tell all? I guess some folks will buy anything as long as it has a nasty bent

McClellan's book is a "limited hangout". Bush was never more than a face man for the Global Dominance Group.

Free your minds, proles. Read and understand:

http://s31076.gridserver.com/assets-managed/pdf/Global_Dominance_Group.pdf

Such emotions from people who haven't read the book. Opinionated? Hmmmmm.

This administration is like a bad comic disney movie from the 70's. There are times where it feels this isn't real...it's a Mel Brooks screenplay. America led by a guy who really does not have the intelligence to be President because his last name was the same as the President the term before the last one (sounds familiar) whose team fooled the American people to go along with their plans (the plans they had coming out of serving on boards with defense contractors and lobbyists for the oil companies...also sounds familiar)

Create this fictional sense of reality by ignoring some intelligence (which has been reported over and over from people like Colin Powell and others)...making it seem like if you speak up against them ...you will be fired

and then chastising anyone who leaves the cult that is the Bush administration...

the system is broke...and if we don't fix it this country is going down.

dl: Allah will fix the problem. He works in mysterious ways.

"Rebuilding America's Defenses called for the protection of the American
Homeland, the ability to wage simultaneous theater wars, perform global constabulary roles, and the control of space and cyberspace. It claimed that the 1990s was a decade of defense neglect and that the US must increase military spending to preserve American geopolitical leadership as the world's superpower. The report claimed that in order to maintain a Pax Americana, potential rivals — such as China, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea — needed to be held in check. The report also recognized that: "the process of transformation … is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event such as a new Pearl Harbor." The events of September 11, 2001 were exactly the kind of catastrophe that the authors of Rebuilding America' Defenses theorized was needed to accelerate a global dominance agenda."

"Before 9/11, the development of strategic global dominance policies were likely to be challenged by members of Congress and liberal HCPE, who continued to hold a détente foreign policy frame of understanding that had been traditionally advocated by the Council of Foreign Relations and the State Department. Liberal and moderate HCPE in various think tanks, policy councils, and universities still hoped for a peace dividend resulting in lower taxes and the stabilization of social programs, and the maintenance of a foreign policy based more on a balance of power instead of unilateral US military global domination. Additionally, many HCPE were worried that the costs of rapidly expanding the military would lead to deficit spending. These liberal/moderate HCPE were so shocked by 9/11 that they became immediately united in their fear of terrorism and in full support of the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and legislation to support military action in Afghanistan and later Iraq. The resulting permanent war on terror led to massive government spending and the rapid acceleration of the neo-conservative HCPE plans for military control of the world."

Obama is an arrogant liar who is completely controlled by the ultra-leftists who have completely destroyed our once proud party.

I think it is great that someone from the inner circle is standing up and telling the truth about this administration - something the rest of the world already knows.

How many hundreds of people have been in this situation in their jobs. Day after day you see wrongdoing, but it is very risky business to attempt to do anything about it - management can twist things to appear many different ways and your entire future can be jeopardized. If McClellan had brought this out a year from now, people would be saying "Why didn't he bring this up a year ago?" Thank God for people who are willing and strong enough to stand up for what's right, even if they do it at their own pace.

Scott is a true American.He has a conscious and he didn't need the money.
Remember anyone around George Bush doesn't need money.May God Bless all the men that lost their lives cause of George Bush and Dicks Cheney

I don't understand why some people are trying to pretend they aren't aware of all of the under handed tactics Bush and his friends are and has been using, including getting into the White House. Everyone with some decency left his administration first chance they got. KUDOS!

Mr. McClellan is a courageous man; I applaud him. By the manner in which the Bush White house went after him, we know that he is telling the truth.

Many are questioning his loyalty; it is good to see someone whose loyalty to the best interest of his country is greater than his loyalty to a misguided president and a band of rogue politicians and liars.

Soooo many books to read! Well, here we have it, but it's not new to those of us who read and have been reading between the lines for 10 years. we didn't trust his boss, but he did.

We told ya so, Scottie !!!!

I admire his honesty now, as he comes clean and tells the story from, yet, another perspective. He did it for the money, and he still is, but sometimes we learn too late that life isn't just about the money - especially when you're in gub'ment.

Sooo, Scottie, who ya gonna vote for now? Ya gonna help us fix this mess you help create? either you're for us or you're against us? Exposing the real terrorists is a good start. If you were in Guantanamo, as aiding the killers, how do think you'd be making out?