Summary
I don't generally make a habit of disagreeing with Peggy Noonan. She is, after all, one of the most thoughtful, accomplished and influential wordsmiths of our time. She is also a much-admired friend and colleague. In an essay published last week in the Wall Street Journal last weekend, however, Peggy offered what amounted to a defense of Scott McClellan's new memoir of his years in the George W. Bush administration, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception." To be fair, it wasn't much of a defense; she took the former press secretary to task for writing a cliche-ridden, "lumpy, uneven and ... embarrassing" tome
Still, Miss Noonan welcomed Mr. McClellan's book as a contribution to a needed "debate on the issues" he addressed - notably, the grounds for the United States going to war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.See the full content of this document
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Tale of Two Books
As everyone knows by now, the one-time Bush press flak came, in the course of writing this book (evidently with considerable help, read "spinning," from the left-wing publisher of George Soros' screeds, Public Affairs), to view the invasion of Iraq a...
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