All of the points he makes are things we already knew...

Yet he did nothing about them when it would have made a difference?

Something very fishy is going on.

Reserved for this toad.

I hope he has a nice life, because the next is really going to suck.  

I suppose he can say he wasn't involved if he tells the truth now. Doesn't make much sense to me, but it may shift the blame.

If I rob a bank and then voluntarily confess will they let me off?

to the effect that McClellan feels like Rove, Cheney, et al. abused him and destroyed his credibility by letting him (or requiring that he) "lie" to the press, and that this is payback.

Maybe -- I don't know. But I suspect that once the memoirs of these years come pouring forth, there is going to be some interesting stuff -- some of it CYA, and some of Bush loyalists trying to shape history by putting off the blame for virtually every miscalculation and screw-up on someone else.

And some of it just good old-fashioned score settling against these bullies.  

So McClellan is singing now (but not, of course, the complete song, revealing Everything). The natural sequence of events will now see the Bushies asassinating Scott's character. Already I have heard "this doesn't sound like Scott. He's terribly distraught," "he has a serious character flaw, so spiteful, blaming everyone but himself," and "the President has been told, but he has better things to do than worry about this" (translation: so the rest of his loyalists will have to do the dirty work of destroying the credibility of this traitor). With the many examples of similar personal destruction before him, like Wilson, Clarke, Plame, etc, I assume McClelland knew what his fate would be. In that vein, maybe he did not go far enough because he still portrayed Bush with adulation--- a mistake, since Bush will feel no gratitude at being protected, but will seek to have McClellan destroyed anyway, while still pretending to be above the dirty work.  

McClellan parroted the lies of the Bush administration and until now I had no idea that he believed he was a paid liar.

I have mixed feelings about this.  Thank God an insider is finally speaking publicly about just how inept this administration is.  Hopefully the history books cite this book.  It is important that the flaws of this administration are documented as historical fact SO THAT THIS IS NEVER REPEATED.  The Bush Administration should be a case study on what not to do.  It would be a crime if Bush doesn't face criminal charges.

That said, I don't think McClellan has atoned for his role in this administration.  He peddled the lies and did so quite willingly.  He wasn't duped, he was complicit.

who hastened to peddle the Bush-Rove lies, never asked serious questions or even follow-up questions, and mocked and disparaged any "reporter" who dared to raise the slightest question about what was going on. McClellan could not have done what he did for as long as he did without the help of the White House press corps. This shared guilt should not go unremarked.

Is that many members of the media are DEFENDING their coverage.

I mean hello, if your network has a countdown to war with a ticker running 24-7, you are supporting the war.  It became a form of entertainment.  They wanted it to happen.

Of course they didn't want to question the war.  They wanted their moment of glory and to have cameras rolling on the front lines.  From the moment the first bombs were dropped, it was an entertainment event, which resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives.

I think we should spend as much effort attacking at denouncing these so-called journalists for their role in dixie chicking and donahue-ing anyone who got in their way, as we do attacking the Bush administration.  

I now understand how German citizens came to support Hitler.  I'm sure that Hitler had his own misinformation campaign and a complicit media.  I'm not comparing Bush to Hitler, but I am comparing how both regimes were able to fool the masses and the end results were unfortunate.

If we had an educated public and a media that isn't a puppet of corporations or the government, we wouldn't be in this situation today.