McClellan pressured on book profitsSun, 01 Jun 2008 14:29:54
A liberal anti-war group has asked former press secretary McClellan to donate proceeds of his book to Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.Scott McClellan released a book titled 'What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception,' arguing the US President George W. Bush had misled the nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq.
The liberal anti-war group MoveOn.org launched the petition email to its supporters Saturday, saying the fact that McClellan is "coming clean is admirable, but McClellan shouldn't profit off the role he played in our nation's largest foreign-policy blunder".
It added, "After spending years defending the Bush administration and perpetuating the lies that led our country into war, Scott McClellan is poised to make bank - his tell-all book is a best-seller, and he may make hundreds of thousands or millions. Meanwhile, our troops are still dying in Iraq."
McClellan, whose book hit number No. 1 on Amazon.com last week in advance of its release tomorrow, has received criticism from Democrats and Republicans for turning against his ex-boss, Bush.
Terry McAuliffe, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, who is now chairman of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign committee, said, "I find it abhorrent the way these people come out and write books about their boss. It made them money; it made them prestige; it gave them all this power and then they turn around and slap them. I don't care who it is Democrat, Republican, it's wrong."
Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas also sent an e-mail to McClellan saying, "There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues."
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