Comments on: McClellan promises to donate portion of book profits to Iraq veterans.

By: DavidC

DavidC — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:35:33 +0000

Stop going after the paid mouthpiece, he did his job. Lets go for the jugular and stop the cancerous brain. War is not an educated first responder tactic. So long as you keep providing funding for this illegal nation building war, you are part of the problem.

By: jabberwocky

jabberwocky — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:03:20 +0000

“furthermore, i have stipulated that the exact amount and percentage donated will be made fully available to the public exactly 25 years following the date of my eventual passing.”

By: p2lf@hotmail.com

p2lf@hotmail.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:38:41 +0000

Remember, this guy is the master of spin and of vague answers. All he says is that he “intends to”, just like he says that the White House condemns torture, that we are making great progress in Iraq, that he will not discuss ongoing investigations especially if they are ongoing, etc, etc. I think it is better for our troops to get a royalty-free version of the book and send the money saved to a charity.

By: clicker

clicker — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:23:54 +0000

Unless he gives 100% of the book profits, then *he* is profits. (Duh?)

By: marubi1

marubi1 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:15:36 +0000

Am I the only one who thought McClellan was insincere??? I’m sure those in the military certainly appreciate receiving care packages, but come on! Here is a guy, who, for three years collected a salary being the President’s stepandfetchit, audaciously doing his part promoting the lie that killed thousands upon thousands of people. When I think about, for instance, a 19-year-old man in a poor city who had no other opportunity, making a courageous decision to sign up and fight for his country and how McClellan was duplicit in squandering that sincerity of purpose–like it was some sort of joke!–it really makes me sick! But then again I’m sure putting a few care packages together with his wife soothed his conscience somehow. How are we going to know how much of his profit goes to veterans? And who is going to ask and keep asking?

By: akue

akue — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:07:35 +0000

i wanted to hear the percent. his exchange about, yes, donating was too too brief to be all that satisfying. i hope his donation portion is much longer that what he had to say about doing so!

By: Bucket89

Bucket89 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:22:04 +0000

PS I dig what all of you are saying. Absolutely amazing.

Ever wonder why the smartest and most clear-minded individuals (younger people) have no power and need to petition their butts off to get anything done, while the dumb brain-dead bimbos (politicians, particularly Republicans) have all the power and then take our ideas as their own?

Just saying.

Bucket89 2028. Get ready for it.

By: Bucket89

Bucket89 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:18:31 +0000

By a portion, he means…ALL of it, right?

How could McClellan possibly excuse holding onto any of this money? Of course, with the military budget being 54% of our GDP, feel free to donate that money to solar energy research so that we have NO dependency on foreign oil.

Side note: WHY does military spending take up 54% of our budget?

McClellan holding onto any money for himself is like a rich man getting a million dollars for charity and donating 75% and keeping the rest to buy a 4th swimming pool.

DONATE IT ALL, McClellan.

By: pleazzer

pleazzer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:14:45 +0000

As there is a law about making money from a crime I do not think he should make ANY MONEY from his book. He has lied to the American people day after day so his pension should also be taken away from him. Would we allow a crack dealer to keep his ill gotten gains? Scott McClellan also killed a lot of people even though he did not hold the gun, Nor did the crack dealer.
When I was in high school these guys were role models. If I had a kid that used them as a role model now I would slap the stupid out of him/her. These guys are not ROLE MODLES now they are just CROOKS paid by us all from our taxes.

By: cowboy dog

cowboy dog — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:50:37 +0000

Scott McClellan is to be commended for doing the right thing in exposing the Bush administration for what many of us suspected from the beginning: The war was a smokescreen for the real purpose of this neo-con administration.

What is encouraging is that we are all doing something together as a group, even if it is a very loose group. From every part of this country people are coming together to fight for what is right, and that gives me great hope.

By: geohunt1

geohunt1 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:17:31 +0000

Yes folks, every nasty thing you have said about Scott McClellen is true. But remember this, McClellen is the only person from the White House inner circle to finally be telling what we all knew was the truth. Now, we must use McClellen to impeach and send to the World Court jail George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and all the other members of the Bush Crime Machine.

If they do their crime, they must do their time. There is no question about that in the USA.

By: Librophile

Librophile — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:57:44 +0000

So when is Sean Hannity …(a.k.a. Shun Honesty)… and Bill O’Reilly …(a.k.a. Billo Real-Lies)… of the Fox News (Fake News) Republican propaganda machine, and Rush Limbaugh …(a.k.a. Rash Lame-balls)… coming out with “THEIR” own books also repudiating the Bush/Cheney warmongering criminal administration ???

Enquiring minds want to know.

By: marcella

marcella — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:44:35 +0000

Buy the book, I did (not that I even need to read it to find out something I didn’t know). First of all if he is indeed going going to donate to the Vets, that’s great. Second, send his little book to the top of the NYT best seller list and watch the right wingers head’s explode. It’s only like $16.00 on Amazon.

By: hanshiro

hanshiro — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:23:32 +0000

Jackie Says: I’m sure Americans will see to forgive the actions of the guilty people and the White House.

I won’t.

By: sectionop92

sectionop92 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:27:43 +0000

Jackie Says:

Well how nice of Scott but can get give the dead soldiers their lives back or the injured soldiers their health back. It’s so easy for people to support lies and send soldiers to die and then say a few bucks will solve the problem. Will Colin Powell do the same with his book or Karl Rove? As a Military Mothers their is no price anyone can pay for the lies these people did to send our soldiers to their death. Children without Mothers/Fathers, wives without husbands and Mothers and Fathers without their children as all this was planned before the 2000 election. I’m sure Americans will see to forgive the actions of the guilty people and the White House. Yes as long as it was you or your son/daughter things go on a normal. But if the White House had open the draft all hell would have taken place in the USA and our troops would have never gone to Iraq.

When a parent of a cancer or AIDS patient dies, it is the disease that kills their child and hardly the lack of funding for the cure that’s called into question. I don’t think your brand of suffering is any less painful or aggravating. Through my own turmoil, you’ll never get any sort of other accountability or satisfaction that will make any of this any easier. It is what it is and it will always be that way. The pain and “what if” stuff will always linger, but in the end you have to hope like hell we have learned to avoid another war like this and that this type of pain isn’t visited upon like it has with you or anyone else. There are times when I wish I can reflect and not go forward. But for myself, going forward is the only way I can make peace with my issues. I hope for you and everyone in your situation, that you may find your peace in the near future with whatever fate befalls these morons who got us into this mindless war.

By: LiberalVoter

LiberalVoter — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:34:35 +0000

Sorry for the late follow up, but this article says a lot as well.

http://www.metroactive.com/bohemian/03.14.07/byrne-0711.html

Pax

By: LiberalVoter

LiberalVoter — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:27:14 +0000

Of course Cheney and Bush et al pushed the US into war, it allowed their base to make money at any cost. Retired Marine Major General Smedley D. Butler hit the nail on the head with his book “War is a Racket” and he passed away in 1940.

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

And it is still true today, just some of the names are different. And I am sorry to say it is not all RNC. California Senator Feinstein should also hang her head in shame, to say the least. Just one example:

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.02.05/byrne-0505.html

A San Francisco Bay Area paper, not even a mainstream outlet. Run a search on Feinstein to see several other reports.

So while I am all for a clean out of war criminals (Bush, Cheney, Addington, Libby, Rumsfeld, and on and on), the light needs to shine brightly and get rid of all the blood sucker.

Sorry for the rant. Reading Butler’s book always raises my ire, and my contact with the ‘powers that be’ for accountability!

Pax

By: sketchy41

sketchy41 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:31:51 +0000

Every talking head and so called journalist who parroted the administrations words and actions are the ones who should be giving a ‘portion’ of their earnings to the vets, as well as the corporate empire who owns them should as well.

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:41:02 +0000

Donating a portion of the proceeds to Iraq veterans is the very least McClellan can do.

He was one of the many enablers that helped put all these people in harm’s way. Not only that, as a mouthpiece, he also belittled anyone who dared criticise his Dear (mis)Leader.

All these enablers and loyalists are also responsible for the countless dead, maimed, raped, and displaced Iraqis who are suffering under the American occupation -their cries about ‘liberating’ Iraq notwithstanding.

McClellan making money from his book sales is just like the criminal who makes money out of recounting his crimes. Donating some of the money is the very least he can do.

By: had enough

had enough — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:05:33 +0000

McClellan promises to donate portion of book profits to Iraq veterans.»

This is fine and good…. I would rather see what appears to be the impossible:

All the war criminals locked up, sued and THEIR assets going to the Iraq war vets and families…. every penny from every war criminal.