From What I Could Tell,

the media have gone into defensive mode with Scott McClellan's memoirs, a book that has caused shock waves.

OF COURSE many of us out here knew the Iraq War was begun because of lies and propaganda, with the PNAC being used as the blueprint, but it is quite something else when somebody who was on the inside of the Bush administration saying it.

And he further indicts the media, which makes the book even more astounding.

Many of the administration’s right-wing supporters, who previously defended McClellan against his critics, are now highlighting these competence issues in an attempt to discredit him and his book.

From the excerpts that have appeared thus far, McClellan’s book is a hackneyed and self-serving account of his tenure in the White House, which hardly makes a coherent critique of the Bush administration and indeed claims that Bush himself was a victim of unscrupulous advisors.

Nonetheless, to the extent that it further substantiates the way in which the administration lied to the American people in order to launch an unprovoked war that has claimed over one million lives, it provides one more bit of evidence for bringing those responsible for this crime to account.