Ray McGovern: Bush Replays Iraq Games on Iran

[babylonsister]

Bush Replays Iraq Games on Iran
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2008-06-01 16:19.

By Ray McGovern, www.consortiumnews.com



Stop! Please. Get beneath the hype over former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. Don’t miss forest for trees.

Not since John Dean told the truth about President Richard Nixon’s crimes have we had an account by a very close aide to a sitting president charging him with crimes of the most serious kind.

McClellan writes that George W. Bush abandoned “candor and honesty” to wage a “political campaign” that led the nation into an “unnecessary war.”

The chief U.S. prosecutor of senior Nazi officials at the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, labeled such action – more correctly termed a war of aggression – the “supreme international crime.”

In other words, President Bush used propaganda and deception to lead the United States into what an earlier generation of American leaders judged not just a war crime, but the “supreme” war crime.

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[malaise]

1. McClellan's only redeeming quality may be that he has

killed the propaganda plan for Iran

[babylonsister]

2. I hope he has; he's no hero, but I'm glad McClellan wrote the book.

He's reinforced so much of what we all suspected.

[malaise]

3. That's my take as well

I'm willing to give thanks to anyone who exposes Bushco

[VP505]

4. I think McClellan

had his own agenda in mind while writing that book but I am glad he did as it might force those that matter in the House to re-think what should be on the table.