Former Top White House Aide Says Bush Misled US on Iraq War
By VOA News
28 May 2008
The former spokesman for U.S. President George Bush, Scott McClellan, says in a new book that the president led a "propaganda" campaign aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" to sell the Iraq war to the American people.
In excerpts of the 341-page memoir, due out next week, McClellan - who served as White House press secretary for three years beginning in 2003 - writes that Mr. Bush was not "open and forthright on Iraq."
McClellan writes that top White House officials, including Karl Rove, Lewis "Scooter" Libby and "possibly Vice President Cheney", encouraged him to repeat a lie about their role in the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity in 2005.
At the time, McClellan told reporters that he had talked with Rove and Libby and that they assured him they were not involved.
He also criticizes the Bush administration for its response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, saying the White House spent most of the first week in what he called a "state of denial."
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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