# Former WHPS Scott McClellan accuses W Admin of misleading us into Iraq **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 28, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-whps-scott-mcclellan-accuses-w-admin-of-misleading-us-into-iraq/450872 "2008-05-28T13:58:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-whps-scott-mcclellan-accuses-w-admin-of-misleading-us-into-iraq/450872/61 "2008-05-30T00:01:32Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] I mean, they had their chance, and prosecutors have to play politics like anybody else. [Not having indicted Rove for the Plame Affair back in 2006,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair#Karl_Rove) it would look silly to do so now. [/QUOTE] I live in a state where a 17 year old kid was sentenced to 10 years in jail for what everyone involved agreed was a consensual blowjob from a 15 year old girl. Nobody but the law wanted him in jail, not the girl or her parents or the public. Except for a few die hard racists (both parties were black) everybody hated the whole thing. He served two years before he was able to get out. I don’t believe DAs give a flying fuck about looking evil, much less silly. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-whps-scott-mcclellan-accuses-w-admin-of-misleading-us-into-iraq/450872/62 "2008-05-30T00:15:45Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] I don’t believe DAs give a flying fuck about looking evil, much less silly. [/QUOTE] At the federal level it’s a whole different game. Especially when the case is as politically charged as the Plame Affair or the attorney-firings scandal. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-whps-scott-mcclellan-accuses-w-admin-of-misleading-us-into-iraq/450872/63 "2008-05-30T01:33:14Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] They didn’t think [Michael Brown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Brown) was over his head and not intelligent enough for the job. Until he was over his head and not intelligent enough for the job, that is. [/QUOTE] Well, shit, it’s not like FEMA actually _does_ anything. Perfect place to put a know-nothing who polishes the right knob. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-whps-scott-mcclellan-accuses-w-admin-of-misleading-us-into-iraq/450872/64 "2008-05-30T01:35:29Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] Who cares about Dubya? He’s toast. I want Rove, he can still do harm to the country by running other election scams. I want Rove in a jail cell. With a big, hairy guy who thinks he has “purty lips.” [/QUOTE] Gives “turd blossom” so many new and disturbing connotations that I need me some brain bleach. Extra strength. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-whps-scott-mcclellan-accuses-w-admin-of-misleading-us-into-iraq/450872/65 "2008-05-30T03:58:32Z")
Inspired by this evening’s _Daily Show_, i did some hunting on the White House website and came up with [this comment](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040322-4.html#4), made by Scott McClellan at a White House Press Briefing on March 22, 2004. The topic of conversation was Richard Clarke’s recently-released book criticizing the Bush administration: > [@](#): > > MR. McCLELLAN: \*\*Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. \*\*And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. **He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book.** Certainly let’s look at the politics of it. His best buddy is Rand Beers, who is the principal foreign policy advisor to Senator Kerry’s campaign. The Kerry campaign went out and immediately put these comments up on their website that Mr. Clarke made. Couldn’t have said it better myself, Scott. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-whps-scott-mcclellan-accuses-w-admin-of-misleading-us-into-iraq/450872.md?page=3)