Ex-Colleagues Ask, 'What Happened?' - washingtonpost.com

In the book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” McClellan says he retains great admiration for Bush but portrays the president as stubborn and isolated. Calling the Iraq war “unnecessary” and a “strategic blunder,” McClellan alleges that senior administration officials began a campaign in 2002 to “aggressively sell the war,” even as he and other officials insisted that all options were on the table.