I looked at the report when it came out, skimming the quotes so painfully familiar, and concentrating on the conclusions.

"generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates" is a pretty tepid exoneration, don't you think? When people say "Bush lied", they're not talking about such technicalities, they're talking about substance. They're speaking the truth that propaganda almost always is based on a kernel of truth, one that's been twisted and distorted to suit the purposes of the propagandist.

It's also a rather narrow "exoneration", because the Senate Intelligence Committee examined only misrepresentations of intelligence assessments. They didn't examine the deliberate context-setting of such lies as Cheney's "they'll greet us as liberators", nor the cumulative effects of tiny lies, like carefully using "Saddam" and "al Qaeda" in the same sentence, over and over and over.

We didn't need Scott McClellan to confess the obvious, that the Bush White House engaged in a propaganda campaign targeted at the American people, but it's nice to get confirmation from an insider. Scotty's book and the Senate's report nicely bookend the story of Bush's deceptions.