Letter: Another damning account of president

Monday, Nov. 26, 2007 | 7:14 a.m.

A soon-to-be released book written by former presidential press secretary Scott McClellan will once again reveal the fact that George W. Bush either has no control of the people that he chooses to assist him in governing or that he is the leader of a devious and small minded group of power hungry fools with no respect for American principles.

McClellan states that he received assurances from the president, the vice president and presidential advisers Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and Andrew Card that none of them had revealed the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. Contrary to their denials, McClellan writes in his upcoming book that "he had unknowingly passed along false information," and that "five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so," regarding the outing of Plame Wilson's "covert" status, a fact that has now been confirmed by recent court documents and CIA reports.

With all that we now know, anyone with an IQ higher than a head of lettuce knows that these reckless men revealed her identity as payback for her husband's opposition to their false claims that Iraq was seeking nuclear materials from an African nation. Whether Scott McClellan is exposing the lies of his former bosses in order to distance himself from the falsehoods that led us into this horrendous mistake in Iraq, or whether he is doing it out of patriotism doesn't matter.

His revelation of the originators of that treasonous act reinforces the fact that our president and his dangerous cronies will lie about anything to protect each other and advance their failed policies. How do these men sleep at night knowing that more than 3,800 U.S. military men and women have died due to their flawed decisions and their continued acts of deceit?

And why do we let this farce of a presidency continue?

Phil Ventura, Las Vegas