Frustrated Scowcroft Assails Neo-Cons, Cheney
"Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser under Bush's father, assailed neo-conservatives who persuaded the president to go to war in Iraq.
In an interview with The New Yorker magazine, Scowcroft, whose relations with the Bush administration have been badly strained since he publicly warned against invading Iraq seven months before U.S. troops crossed over from Kuwait, argued that the invasion was counter-productive.
'This was said to be part of the war on terror, but Iraq feeds terrorism,' Scowcroft told the magazine...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell's top aide for some 16 years... accused Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld of leading a "cabal" that circumvented the formal policy-making and intelligence processes in order to take the country to war in Iraq."
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