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Bush 'relied on propaganda'

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that President George W. Bush relied on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign" instead of the truth to sell the Iraq War, it has been reported.

The Bush White House made "a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed" - a time when the nation was on the brink of war, McClellan writes in the book entitled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception."