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To: Alighieri who wrote (256774)	10/23/2005 1:39:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573351

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The Bush administration is bracing for a powerful new attack by Brent Scowcroft, the respected national security adviser to the first President George Bush. A Republican and a former Air Force general, Scowcroft is a leading member of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, and his critique of both of the style and the substance of the Bush White House, is slated to appear in Monday's editions of the New Yorker magazine. These are dangerous times. The neocons have been uncloaked almost completely. I am curious what they will do next. They have worked 25 years to get to this place. I don't think they will give it up easily. The article also contains some critical comments on the handling of U.S. foreign policy by the current President Bush from his father, whose 1989-1993 presidency is hailed for deft management of the end of the Cold War, German unification, the first Gulf war and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The new attack comes hard on the heels of the denunciation of "the cabal around Cheney's office" by Col. Larry Wilkerson, the chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell in a widely reported speech to the New American Foundation in Washington this week. Wilkerson said the national security decision-making process was effectively "broken." See..........this is what worries me. Wilkerson is attacking Cheney and Rumsfeld viciously but omitting Bush in the attack. In fact, he calls Bush one of the best presidents in this country's history. I think these attacks which many of us think are long overdue are more about internal disagreements and personality differences rather than a clash of ideologies. For an example, I suspect Wilkerson likes what we have done in Iraq and elsewhere, and is pissed simply because its failing. He faults only Cheney and Rummie for the failure even though he knows Bush is also to blame. I think they want to sacrifice Cheney and Rummie and save Bush so they can go on from here. ted