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Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war."

Shear's piece does not specify "the major reason for going to war".

Does McClellan's book ever tell us what it was? If yes, what was it? If not, why not?

Americans who allowed themselves to be misled by "a sophisticated political propaganda campaign" are as culpable in their own right for Iraq as Bush was culpable in his.