In Ex-Spokesman.s Book, Harsh Words for Bush
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: May 28, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/washington/28mcclellan.html
PHOENIX -- President Bush "convinces himself to
believe what suits his needs at the moment," and
has engaged in "self-deception" to justify his
political ends, Scott McClellan, the former White
House press secretary, writes in a critical new
memoir about his years in the West Wing.
In addition, Mr. McClellan writes, the decision to
invade Iraq was a "serious strategic blunder," and
yet, in his view, it was not the biggest mistake
the Bush White House made. That, he says, was "a
decision to turn away from candor and honesty when
those qualities were most needed."