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...disarmed, it was best to do so with the backing of the international community. The Security Council, Powell said, was ready to force Saddam to accept weapons inspectors for the first time since 1998. Bush was hearing the same argument from old colleagues of his father's, like Brent Scowcroft, Rice's predecessor and mentor, and from British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was due to visit Camp David at the end of the month. On Aug. 26, in Crawford, Texas, Bush held a meeting of the National Security Council over a secure videoconference system. Powell argued that taking...
Cheney occupied the right edge of the spectrum in the first bUsh Administration too. nAtional Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, President Bush, Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell and sEcretary Of State Jim Baker all viewed Cheney as the Administration's unreconstructed cold warrior at a time when the cold war was coming to an end. Cheney would voice his opinions internally - even if he was usually overruled - but the debate stopped there...
Retired Air Force General Brent Scowcroft, the Republican foreign-policy Yoda who has worked for five of the past seven Presidents, rarely raises his voice in public. But just a few months after he broke with George W. Bush on Iraq, urging him to stay focused on the war against terrorism before going after Saddam Hussein, Scowcroft is speaking out again. This time he's tangling with an old colleague from the Nixon and Ford years, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...more than a year, Scowcroft has been quietly nudging the Administration to place control of all American intelligence assets--satellites and eavesdropping ships as well as old-fashioned spies and spooks--in the hands of the CIA director rather than spread it over 14 competing federal agencies. Scowcroft chaired a yearlong study on the subject and sent his report to the President in March. There it collects dust, largely because Rumsfeld, the hyperpopular Pentagon chief, refuses to give up military control of intelligence budgets or assets. At a black-tie Washington dinner last week, when he presented an award...
...Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and Bush won the other Peck Presidential award, for service to a president...