2008-06-04 McClellan's 'mea culpa' way too late

2008-06-04 \Scott McClellan\Bush II administration\Leonard Pitts Jr./writings http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/story/557344.html McClellan's 'mea culpa' way too late &ldquo;For almost three years, McClellan was the lead salesman and staunch defender of the Iraq debacle, the man who swore with a straight face and evident sincerity that up was down and black, white. Now here he comes with this remarkable mea culpa, and it's hard to know what he expects a reader to take away. .. There is no cheap joy of I told you so in this book. Too many people are limbless, maimed and dead for that, too much treasure is lost, too many lives are ruined, too much national prestige has been peed away. .. And if the idea is for McClellan to reclaim his integrity, well, that ship has sailed -- and sunk. The time for integrity was four or five years ago when telling the truth would have required some guts, when it might have meant something, challenged something, changed something.&rdquo;   