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  • Ex-press aide McClellan says in new book that White House used propaganda to sell war

    05/28/2008 5:30:27 AM PDT · by sodpoodle · 299 replies · 460+ views
    Washington Post ^ | May 28, 2008 | By Michael D. Shear
    Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war." McClellan includes the charges in a 341-page book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," that delivers a harsh look at the White House and the man he served for close to a decade. He describes Bush as demonstrating a "lack of inquisitiveness," says the White...