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The content of this information, which is only known by us, is of tremendous public importance. There are many lives and careers at stake. When we tell you, history’s course will be forever changed.

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Apologies for the dripping sarcasm, but it’s overflowing because of ex-White House spokesman Scott McClellan’s transparent trading of his insider’s view of the Bush Administration for the profit margin of a best-selling memoir.

McClellan’s book makes stirring claims about Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq, comments on the president’s inflated sense of himself in history, and presents his former employers as a gang of self-inflated buffoons.

His allegations prompted some to opine, if true, impeachment proceedings should begin immediately. Intentionally misleading the American public and ignoring critical intelligence are certainly not to be taken lightly.

What a shame it is, then, that it is far too late to do anything about it.

We can point fingers and assign blame. We can retrace the record to unearth the exact second when everything went wrong. And we can triumphantly proclaim we’ve learned our lessons, and whew, we’ll never do that again.

None of this changes the present one tragic bit. All this light-shedding, soul-searching and appeals for public redemption does nothing to bring this country closer to changing the course of the unpopular war in Iraq.

It borders on arrogance for people such as McClellan, and others such as former CIA chief George Tenet, and whoever else’s manuscript is now being shopped, to leverage their participation in what they now consider betrayals of trust in order to line their pockets as best-selling authors.

But this characteristic transcends mere politics. Anyone wishing to drop a bombshell now does so in print, for their gain, rather than for the public. Jose Canseco could have saved baseball the steroid era if he spoke up, for example.

Instead, we, as a nation, got to read all about it (in fifth-grade grammar) in “Juiced.”

Baseball isn’t war, though (Yankees-Red Sox notwithstanding). Actions divulged by McClellan in his “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” are of much graver importance.

Americans have paid dearly for those decisions, and shouldn’t have to pay to read about them now.

The revelations in McClellan’s book are startling, however. They do make for a great read.

Imagine what could have been, if he made them when they mattered.