That question, asked and answered at Nukes & Spooks.
But
the responses to McClellan from the Bush administration and media
bigwigs, history-bending as they are, compel us to jump in. As we like
to say around here, it's truth to power time, not just for the politicians but also for some folks in our own business.
The
stellar performance of McClatchy journalists is undeniable, and they
deserve our thanks for reporting, and asking the tough questions, while
the major networks and the so-called liberal media were sucking their
collective thumbs.
When McClellan pledges all income from this
book endeavor to the victims of his boss's war crimes I should be quite
happy to entertain the notion we "need" men like him.
Men with a front
row seat, as it were, to tell us about the inner workings of an administration hellbent on war are required to convince those on Right that Bush and his gang are indeed war criminals. But, most of us on the Left know what happened!
We were lied into a misbegotten war for no good reason. And now, more
than 4000 dead Americans, score of thousands of dead Iraqis cry out
from the grave for justice.
McClellan was the willing mouthpiece of an
administration filled with war criminals and their minions. We might spare McClellan the
gallows for his treachery, but his puppetmasters deserve no such
leniency.
