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Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

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War, Mistake, Unnecessary

Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.13, PublicAffairs

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Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

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New Orleans, Texas, People

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Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

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Want

"Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. October 14, 2005.

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As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.

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Team, Texas, Iraq

"What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.

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I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

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Kind, Servant, Wanted

Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.10, PublicAffairs

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I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

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Differences, Speaking Up, Political

"Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 1, 2008.

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I'm glad to share my views.

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Views, Share, Glad

"McClellan stands by barnburner book". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. May 29, 2008.

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Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time.

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War, Communication, Agency

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It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait.

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War, Kuwait, America

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I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.

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President, Vices, Information

Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.3, PublicAffairs

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My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.

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Wife, Support, Troops

"McClellan: President practices 'self-deception'". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com.

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As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

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White, House, Rooms

Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.10, PublicAffairs

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A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks

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Safe Haven, Blow, Iraq

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Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

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Mistake, Thinking, Order

"McClellan: I Became What I Wanted to Change". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2008.

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Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.

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Law, Focus, Drug

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The Iraq war was not necessary.

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War, Iraq, Iraq War

"What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, June 3, 2008.

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Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.

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Average, Blood, Ideas

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My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

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Criticism, Tone, Comparison

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We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.

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President, May, Today

"White House: Bush 'disappointed' in OPEC" by Dana Bash and Jennifer Yuille, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

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Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.

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Opposites, Way, Hussein

"Insight" with Jonathan Mann, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2005.

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There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy.

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Views, Differences, Enemy

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Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

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Atmosphere, Church, Toxic

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It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

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Parent, Coincidence, Kent

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As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.

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War, Opportunity, Greatness

Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.131, PublicAffairs

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In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

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People, Leader, Want

"Abu Ghraib prisoners escape" by Dana Bash, Elise Labott, Nermeen al-Mufti, Barbara Starr, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Ayman Mohyeldin and Jennifer Yuille, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2005.

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Born: February 14, 1968
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