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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (708487)	10/23/2005 6:13:44 PM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 769667

WOW! Brent Scowcroft Lets it Rip (Like Larry Wilkerson) in Monday's New Yorker thewashingtonnote.com The revered-in-tons-of-corners former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft definitively breaks ranks with the Bush administration in an article by nearly the same name, "Breaking Ranks," appearing in the upcoming Monday issue of The New Yorker. The article will outline what decisions and events have built up to turn Brent Scowcroft against this Bush administration. Yes, that's right. . ."turned Brent Scowcroft against this Bush administration." Jeffrey Goldberg, the author of the piece, has pulled off a stunning coup by not only getting Brent Scowcroft to talk -- but also getting some incredibly juicy commentary from President George H.W. Bush on the performance of his son's national security team. I don't have the full piece yet -- but I know it will be a blockbuster. I also know that for all of those who had difficulty (read Rush Limbaugh; alternative site here) adjusting to former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson's candid commentary on the White House's broken national security decision-making process, you are going to have an even more difficult time with revelations from Scowcroft. They will be saying largely similar things about a "cabal" that undid our nation's security. For those of you interested, here is a link to the transcript of the presentations by General Brent Scowcroft and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that I helped host on January 6th of this year. Scowcroft's comments about "incipient civil war" in Iraq made global news and started a jousting match between my blog and David Frum's. You can look back at the January archive here for more on that important Scowcroft battle. More later.