All sorts of goodness, really, to be gleaned from McClellan’s upcoming book:

The president’s real motivation for the war, he said, was to transform the Middle East to ensure an enduring peace in the region. But the White House effort to sell the war as necessary due to the stated threat posed by Saddam Hussein was needed because “Bush and his advisers knew that the American people would almost certainly not support a war launched primarily for the ambitions purpose of transforming the Middle East,” McClellan wrote.

“Rather than open this Pandora’s Box, the administration chose a different path — not employing out-and-out deception, but shading the truth,” he wrote of the effort to convince the world that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, an effort he said used “innuendo and implication” and “intentional ignoring of intelligence to the contrary.”

This is exactly - exactly - what we evil lib’ruls have been saying for years. And now it’s confirmed, by an insider.

And I like Drudge’s main headline on this - “Scott the Snitch.”

Not, see, that Bush maneuvered the country into war by shading the truth - no outrage over that. Outrage only that the game would be revealed.

So completely indicative of the poisonous conservative mindset that’s been running roughshod over this country for the better part of a decade, and now must be encased in concrete and buried forever.

Writes Sullivan:

If this is true, if the president intentionally ignored data refuting the existence of Saddam’s WMDs, he should be impeached.