“President Bush managed the crisis in a way that almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option,” McClellan concluded.
Source: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/05/28/0528mcclellan.html
Read that statement again. Slowly.
Whether you believe Scott McCellan is just doing this to sell books (he is) or not, that doesn’t change the fact that this is someone who was very close to the President making a very candid statement. Did he come out with this information too late? Of course. Should he have resigned? If he believed then what he currently says he believes, then most definitely. Regardless, I find that single statement breathtaking in its indictment of this administration’s lead up to the Iraq war.
