Kelso on McClellan (and Bush)

Wow-Statesman humorist John Kelso has a comi-tragic column on the whole Scott McClellan tell-some book brouhaha. Kelso, like many others, points out that the genesis of the book is likely McClellan being lied to and being asked to lie to the press (read: American people) about the whole Valarie Plame affair. But Kelso, who normally confines himself to milder (read: funnier) political discourse, veers into a serious point, sharply made:

The book says the president ignored the intelligence that said the war would be a disaster and started it anyway because he thought only wartime presidents achieve "a legacy of greatness."

Greatness? Here's Bush's legacy: a national debt of $9.4 trillion; a worldwide lack of trust in the U.S. government; a dollar so weak it's changed the meaning of the expression, "Your money's no good around here, mister"; and an economy so lame that in tony Santa Barbara, Calif., they've created special overnight parking lots for people who have lost their homes and have to spend the night sleeping in their cars.