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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html
It's not that the incompetence and deception depicted is news. What is news is someone on the inside of the Bush circle owning up to it.
Bush makes Carter look like a genius.
Here we are with Bush about to leave:
1. mired in a deadly and costly and unnecessary conflict
2. our standing in the world among democratically-minded people severely diminished
3. huge debt, huge govt spending
4. a recession
5. civil liberties for Americans in the toilet
6. an administration that has advocated, in effect, for the DC gun ban
I could go on and on. When you put a moron in office, and he is surrounded my evil men, well, we know how this story goes...
Obama, at least, seems not to be a moron. He's got that going for him.
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McClellan's book bothers me on multiple levels. If he disagreed with Bush at the time on the war, he should have said something to Bush. If he learned he had been lied to about war intelligence, he should have said something to the press or to Congress. If he learned Bush was manipulating intelligence, he should have said something to the press or Congress. He didn't.
Either he is a lousy human being just now doing the right thing for the wrong reason, or he is a lousy human being doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason. In either event, I don't think McClellan will do so well in history.