Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan appeared on CBC Radio One's The Current, where he told the host that Vice President Cheney wanted to invade Iraq for oil and personal gain.
Inquiring about Vice President Dick Cheney’s motivations to go to war, host Jim Brown noted that Cheney “doesn’t strike me as someone who would be particularly motivated by idealistic visions.” McClellan agreed, adding that Iraq’s oil occupied Cheney’s mind more than anything else:
MCCLELLAN: Certainly you can’t discount the large oil reserves inside Iraq and how much that plays into our national security interests and I don’t think you can discount how much that plays into the vice president’s thinking. BROWN: Or his portfolio for that matter. MCCLELLAN: Or his portfolio for that matter, absolutely with that being a former chief executive officer for Halliburton and that certainly played heavily into his thinking more so I think than the idea of transforming the Middle East into a beacon of democracy.
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McClellan's not really saying anything everyone doesn't already know -- Dick Cheney's a soulless, conscienceless, venal POS.
Can you believe we couldn't get this guy impeached? I'm beginning to think that Pelosi and Reid would've let Nixon off the hook.
