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Ex-Security Adviser Rips Bush Diplomacy
AP via Yahoooo ^ | 10/16/04 | AP

Posted on 10/16/2004 2:44:09 PM PDT by I_saw_the_light

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To: I_saw_the_light

Don't forget, Scowcroft was the a-hole Bush 41 sent to China and proceeded to give champaign toasts to the butchers of Bejing.


41 posted on 10/16/2004 3:45:18 PM PDT by Maynerd
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To: Tallguy

Isn't Scowcroft involved with a large Arab group?


42 posted on 10/16/2004 4:05:42 PM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: Janan Ganesh
Scowcroft is the worst kind of do-nothing, ultra-realist cynic. He didn't even want a decisive American victory in the Cold War - he wanted to preserve some kind of Russian superpower (Soviet or not) for reasons of "stability", which is why James Baker was sent to Kiev in '89 to say "save the USSR".

Exactly.
Scowcroft built his entire career, his life, around Balance of Powers diplomacy. He worked to keep NATO, SEATO and the rest of our military alliances strong and balanced against The Soviet Union, The Warsaw Pact and Red China.

When communism fell, he quite literally lost his mind.
Our winning made his expertise, his connections, his life irrelevant.

How different is Condi Rice, who promptly retooled from Soviet Expert to all 'round National Security Maven.

So9

43 posted on 10/16/2004 4:07:45 PM PDT by Servant of the 9 (We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
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To: Hildy
Perot probably was justified in his dislike for Papa Bush.

He had an ax to grind for the way he dismissed the POW/MIA of Viet Nam issue.

Papa Bush, McCain, and Kerry were all in on the idea of normalizing VN relations with the US.

There is much more to this story than meets the eye.

44 posted on 10/16/2004 4:09:03 PM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: Hildy
I voted for Perot. Sue me.

Nah...you've suffered enough - I hope!

45 posted on 10/16/2004 5:17:02 PM PDT by ErnBatavia ("Dork"; a 60's term for a 60's kinda guy: JFK)
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To: ErnBatavia
Nah...you've suffered enough - I hope!

Well, unfortunately, we all suffered.

46 posted on 10/16/2004 10:15:03 PM PDT by Hildy (The really great men are always simple and true)
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To: Hildy

8 years of the klintoons. thanks


47 posted on 10/17/2004 10:40:08 AM PDT by sausageseller
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To: sausageseller

Yea, that was my fault. Did you read the posts on this thread?


48 posted on 10/17/2004 12:18:32 PM PDT by Hildy (The really great men are always simple and true)
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To: Hildy

Not 48 till now. I am commanded to forgive yet it is hard.


49 posted on 10/17/2004 2:09:21 PM PDT by sausageseller
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To: Fedora

Here's a bump to something interesting- Scowcroft was on one of Kofi Annan's panels.


50 posted on 05/07/2006 7:34:14 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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