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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (23241)	5/16/2004 8:28:01 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 81568

"Bush emerges as vain rather than confident, a man whose major concern is to show he has "cojones". Yet his self-confidence is so frail that Brent Scowcroft, his father's former national security adviser, largely shut up in public after cautioning of the risks of war - not because he changed his view but because he and Bush snr did not want to injure the son's self-confidence." smh.com.au

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (23241)	5/16/2004 8:29:11 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

The Scowcroft warning was better put on a turban and bow to Mecca everyday rather than risk a single life trying to defend the world from Satanistic terrorists.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (23241)	5/16/2004 8:29:12 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Scowcroft wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times warning of the risks of war in Iraq. He was told by Bush Sr. to keep quiet because he was hurting the self confidence of Bush Jr.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (23241)	5/16/2004 8:37:01 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Brent Scowcroft is the source of major embarrassment for the administration when he authors an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal arguing against the need to remove Saddam Hussein from power. He says that the toppling of Saddam's regime would destabilize the Middle East and thus “turn the whole region into a cauldron and destroy the War on Terror.” Noting that “there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks,” he calls on Bush to abandon his designs on Saddam Hussein and instead refocus his foreign policy on the war on terrorism. [Wall Street Journal] It is suggested that Scowcroft's criticisms probably reflect the feelings of the President's father. The Los Angeles Times reports: “Several former officials close to Scowcroft said they doubted he would have gone public with that posture without clearing the move first with the senior Bush, heightening questions about the latter's view on confronting Iraq. The former president has not commented publicly, which has only fed speculation.” [Los Angeles Times, 8/17/02]