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October 24, 2005
Former National Security Adviser Calls Administration on Bushit
Brent Scowcroft, the National Security Adviser under the first President George Bush who has often been at odds with the current administration, threw all caution to the wind and called those chumps out in an interview with The New Yorker magazine, released today.
"This [Iraq] was said to be part of the War on Terror, but Iraq feeds terrorism," he told the magazine. Back in August 2002, Scowcroft warned the Bush administration that "an attack on Iraq at this time would seriously jeopardize, if not destroy, the global counter-terrorist campaign we have undertaken."
"...This is exactly where we are now," he said of Iraq, with no apparent satisfaction. "We own it. And we can't let go. We're getting sniped at. Now, will we win? I think there's a fair chance we'll win. But look at the cost."
"... The real anomaly in the Administration is Cheney," Scowcroft said. "I consider Cheney a good friend -- I've known him for thirty years. But Dick Cheney, I don't know anymore."
When the New Yorker asked Scowcroft if the current President George W. Bush son was different from his father, the first President Bush, Scowcroft said, "I don't want to go there," but his dissatisfaction with the son's agenda could not have been clearer, the New Yorker said. Goldberg wrote, "When I asked him to name issues on which he agrees with the younger Bush, he said, "Afghanistan." He paused for twelve seconds. Finally, he said, "I think we're doing well on Europe," and left it at that.
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Flashback – Brent Scowcroft – 30 years+ in the shadow world:
Above, images of a 1991 "declassified" memo from Scowcroft to Dick Cheney from MIT Archive. A text version can be found here.
More random Scowcroftness:
His resume at Scowcroft.com
Days into the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Henry Kissinger tells Scowcroft that President Nixon is too drunk to take a phone call from British Prime Minister Edward Heath.
Posted by MJuhre at October 24, 2005 02:33 PM