Bugliosi and Parry on McLellan and What Happened

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Critical Voices on Scott McClellan

VINCENT BUGLIOSI, via David Kass, dkass@hmieast.com,
http://www.prosecutionofbush.com
Bugliosi is a former prosecutor who successfully prosecuted 21
murder convictions without a single loss. His previous best-selling
books include "Helter Skelter" about the Charles Manson case, which he
successfully prosecuted.
He has authored the just-released "The Prosecution of George W. Bush
for Murder." Bugliosi said today: "I have not had an opportunity to read
Mr. McClellan's book, but I read a quote from it in the New York Times
in which McClellan says 'Iraq was a series of strategic blunders.' If
this is his position, he and I couldn't be further apart. A blunder is a
mistake. Mistakes are by definition innocent and never criminal. In my
book I present incontrovertible evidence that George W. Bush knowingly
and deliberately took this nation to war on a lie, under false
pretenses, and is therefore guilty of murder. So my position is
diametrically opposed to Mr. McClellan's.
"In taking us to war in Iraq, not only were George Bush's allegation
that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat to the security of this
country and his unmistakable allegation by implication that Hussein was
involved in 9/11, false, but also and much more importantly, Bush knew
that both allegations were untrue.
"In his first nationally televised address on the Iraqi crisis on
October 7, 2002, President Bush told millions of unsuspecting Americans
the exact opposite of what the CIA and 15 other U.S. intelligence
agencies had told him on October 1, just six days earlier, in a
top-secret, classified report -- that Hussein was not an imminent threat
to this country and would only use force against us if he feared he was
in imminent danger of an attack on him by us. This was a monumental lie
by Bush to the nation and the world."

ROBERT PARRY, robrtparry@aol.com, http://consortiumnews.com,
http://neckdeepbook.com
Parry's latest book is "Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of
George W. Bush" and was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat. Parry
broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated
Press and Newsweek.
He just wrote a piece titled "Surprise, Surprise: Bush Lied," which
states: "Some may view ex-White House press secretary Scott McClellan's
new book as vindication for those who took grief -- accused of
'derangement,' 'treason' and a bunch of less-printable things --
for
calling George W. Bush a liar over the past eight years. But the more
troubling point is that there has been little improvement in the
Washington political/media structure that failed to call Bush out on his
lies in a timely fashion.
"In Iraq alone, the consequences for that dereliction of duty
include more than 4,000 U.S. dead along with hundreds of thousands of
slain Iraqis and possibly trillions of taxpayer dollars wasted. Though
Bush's White House and his Republican allies may stand out as the
principal villains in this tragic story, a large share of the blame also
must fall on accommodating Democrats and careerists in the Washington
press corps. They protected their political flanks and their nice
salaries by playing along. ...
"It also wasn't hard to figure out that President Bush was a brazen
liar. ... Bush began rewriting the history by
telling reporters that Saddam Hussein was the one who 'chose' war by
barring United Nations inspectors. 'We gave him a
chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And,
therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from
power,' Bush told reporters on July 14, 2003. Facing no serious
challenge to this lie from the White House press corps, Bush continued
repeating it in varied forms as part of his public litany for defending
the invasion. ... "

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Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167

interviewing....the information here is fact, not just scotty selling a book. Yes, there is room on the cable for both of them to be interviewed.:-)