A Voice of Reason among the Rabid Bush Team
Scott,
Brent Scowcroft impresses me as an intelligent man who isn't being co-opted by the lunacy of the Perle/Wolfowitz/Cheney crowd.
washingtonpost.com
Scowcroft Urges Restraint Against Iraq
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 5, 2002; Page A04
Leading members of Congress and a key adviser to President Bush took the debate over whether to invade Iraq to television talk shows yesterday, with retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft, chairman of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, strongly urging restraint.
While acknowledging that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was trying to become a threat to the region, Scowcroft, on CBS's "Face the Nation," warned that a U.S. invasion of Iraq "could turn the whole region into a cauldron and, thus, destroy the war on terrorism."
Scowcroft, who advised Bush's father during the Persian Gulf War and who has been a voice of skepticism about invading Iraq to oust Hussein, said the United States should focus first on fighting the war against terrorism and on calming the battle between Israel and the Palestinians.
He also said the United Nations should press Iraq to accept weapons inspectors who could inspect facilities without notifying the Iraqi government in advance. Though he said Hussein might reject such a plan, that would give the United States a "casus belli that we don't really have right now."
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Here's a bit of history on Scowcroft's articulate thinking on Iraq:
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