Former Bush spokesman tells truth...finally

It's good to see that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is accepting some responsibility for an administration that "veered terribly off course" and used "propaganda" against its own citizens to sell a war.

In "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," a memoir to be published next week, McClellan admits that he was part of the stream of falsehoods and half-truths that emanated from an administration that took "a permanent campaign" approach to governing. McClellan writes: "What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."

While his honesty is appreciated, it's a bit late. What we need are people who have the guts to stand up and tell us the truth when they are still part of the government or the military or big corporations and can influence policy. It's easy to come clean when feeling guilt after the fact.