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...first Bush administration leaned heavily on the Israelis before and after the Gulf War, threatening to cut funding if Israel persisted in expanding its West Bank settlements and cajoling the Shamir government into diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinians. Key architects of that policy, such as former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Secretary of State James Baker, have urged the current Bush administration to follow suit...
...spring of 2000, George W. Bush rolled out his wise men. Doesn't matter, said Bush. I don't have to know everything; elect me, and I'll call on all the best people for advice: Heavy hitters like Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft. But on the question of whether to invade Iraq, which may yet come to define the second Bush presidency, the foreign policy wise men of the CEO president's own party have been in sharp (and very public) disagreement...
...Saddam unless Baghdad was about to attack America or its allies. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Gulf War hero General Norman Schwarzkopf recognized the importance of ousting Saddam, but cautioned against the U.S. acting alone. The harshest warning of all came from former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, still a close associate of the President's father, who warned that the potentially catastrophic consequences outweighed any good that an invasion could achieve...
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has been leading the charge in the Bush Administration for Washington to take on Saddam Hussein. Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Sr.'s National Security Adviser, now working as an international consultant, is more closely aligned with G.O.P. centrists, notably Secretary of State Colin Powell, who question the wisdom of waging war to topple the Iraqi President. In a pairing some observers thought was odd, Scowcroft joined Wolfowitz last week on a 20-hour nonstop flight to Singapore, where the Deputy Secretary was giving a speech at a three-day security conference (Scowcroft had been invited...
...proposal to give Pforzheimer residents a one-point advantage in their housing lottery number for each semester they had to live in Jordan this year was defeated decisively, according to Brent S. Tworetzky ’03, treasurer of the Pforzheimer House Committee, who conducted a preliminary vote count shortly before voting closed last night...