When Bushies attack! Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan wrote a book!

Little Scotty does not hold much back. And he also confirms much of what we all believed to be true.

Here are a couple of examples:

• McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.

• He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.

• He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”

• The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.

• McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

Oh and McClellan does not spare the press either:

“If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.

“The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.”

Ouch! And this from the guy who was paid to make it hard for the press to get the truth out of the Bush administration. Methinks Scotty is more then just a little pissed off.

I think I will do my part to help him heal by purchasing this book. If for no other reason then just to have confirmed all of the things that I believed to be true back when all of this was going on and the White House denied.