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Reasons Why We Invaded Iraq: No.1 – Afghanistan Is Boring

by | 28th, May 2008

SCOTT McLellan, a former press secretary – think a piggier version of Alistair Campbell -attacks George Bush’s White House in his new book.

The Politico says McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war. As a revelation that’s right up there with news that nine out of then US porn stars sleep on their backs and the Pope has three children living in a beer cellar in Salzburg (everyone knows that, right?).

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The book is making big news on the web and in the US media.

The book and its treatment reminds us how mind-numbingly dull politics can be, and how the leaders are just the ones who can feign interest the longest.

Picture: Why the US invaded Iraq – because Afghanistan is so boring and it makes for good telly…



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