“The president was very clear about the reasons for going to war,” she told reporters at a news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Stockholm where she is attending an international conference on Iraq.
Chief among those reasons was the belief, shared widely before the war, that Saddam Hussein had or was developing weapons of mass destruction, Rice recalled, suggesting the international community shouldn’t have backed harsh sanctions against Iraq if it doubted the threat.
But the specific charge in McClellan’s book is that the administration, Rice included, intentionally ignored all evidence that might have proven the “threat” to be as bogus as it turned out to be.
What she’s saying, in other words, is akin to “Otter’s” line in Animal House:
“Hey, you f****d up, you trusted us. Make the best of it.”
And now, thanks to this administration, the international community’s trust in the U.S. is understandably - and rightly - diminished.
Meanwhile, Obama piles on - as well he should:
“The only news is that somebody within the administration has confirmed what a lot of us have thought for some time.”
Condi, et al can spin and spin - but then, McClellan was on “Today” this morning, an insider confirming that all the evil lib’rulz said these past seven years is correct.
He added: “I have a higher loyalty than my loyalty necessary to my past work. That’s a loyalty to the truth.”
Yeah, but that idea isn’t universally shared.
And Middle America is finally getting that message.
