Kudos to Scott McClellan for coming clean on what the rest of the world knows: that the Bush administration misled the nation (and itself) into the "strategic blunder" that is Iraq while consciously making “a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed.”
We must admit, we felt like McClellan was the biggest stooge of all when parroting that stuff back in real time. In that role, however, we will give him a free pass for not speaking up at the time, unlike, say, Colin Powell.
Loyalty, not the lack of it, is what has been the single biggest problem with the Bush administration all along. Loyalty is what makes people ignore the facts in front of them. Loyalty is what might make the same dumb-ass policy decisions happen again in, say, neighboring Iran. Loyalty to anyone, including President Obama, has to take a back seat to the truth... so it feels good to get at least a small snippet of it from the inner circle of Texas-style cronyism.
