McClellan--the problem is the system?

Listened to McClellan on NPR this morning and that seems to be his explanation. Or perhaps he is trying to pull his punch on the President, but he seems to want it both ways.

I am sure the system is broken, but this administration made it worse, and clearly lied to all of us.

"I don't think it was intentional or deliberate," McClellan says. "What happened here was we got caught up in the very thing the president campaigned against when he was first running for president back in 2000 – the destructive, partisan tone in Washington."

Of course it was deliberate. Even according to McClellan, Bush and his people knew that the American people would not buy a war based on some vague notion of transforming the Middle East, so they emphasized WMD and just ignored any intelligence that didn't fit their argument. Of course it was deliberate.