Scowcroft: Sharon has "mesmerized" Bush "wrapped around his little finger"

IsraelInsider ^ | October 16, 2004

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Scowcroft: Sharon has "mesmerized" Bush "wrapped around his little finger" By israelinsider staff October 16, 2004

Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, slammed the current president's handling of foreign policy in an interview published this week in The Financial Times, saying that the current President Bush is "mesmerized" by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger," Scowcroft said. "I think the president is mesmerized." He added: "When there is a suicide attack, Sharon calls the president and says, 'I'm on the front line of terrorism,' and the president says, 'Yes, you are ...' He [Sharon] has been nothing but trouble."

Although Bush has been supportive of Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, Scowcroft said he warned U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice that this is a ruse to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state, an interpretation validated by the recent interview with Sharon's key adviser Dov Weissglas, who bragged of his close relationship with the woman he calls "Condi."

"When I first heard Sharon was getting out of Gaza," Scowcroft said, "I was having dinner with Condi and she said: 'At least that's good news,' " Scowcroft recounted. "And I said: 'That's terrible news.... Sharon will say: 'I want to get out of Gaza, finish the wall [the Israeli security barrier] and say I'm done.'"

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, asked about Scowcroft's remarks on Fox TV's "Your World," said that "I have the greatest respect for Brent Scowcroft" but that Bush had gotten Sharon to attend a summit in 2003 with the Palestinian prime minister, and that Sharon has said he is committed to the U.S.-backed peace plan known as the road map.

"Whatever reluctance Mr. Sharon had, he was there," Powell said. "And ever since, he has reaffirmed his commitment, notwithstanding statements by others," an apparent reference to the remarks of Weissglas.

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Another attack on both the Bush administration and Jews: nefarious Jews tricked the simpletons Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld. It's all those tricky "neo-cons" with invariably Jewish names and not Sharon.

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Scowcroft: Sharon has "mesmerized" Bush "wrapped around his little finger"

[risk]

Who's wrapped around whose finger?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Old Brent has a hard time with winning.

He would make a good Igor for Kerry, the monster that Vietnam created.

[jpw01]

""When there is a suicide attack, Sharon calls the president and says, 'I'm on the front line of terrorism,' "

If Isreal isn't the front line of terrorism, what is?

[SteveMcKing]

Israel had had nukes for 30 years. I wonder how often - and in what manner - they have chosen to remind the United States of that fact.

I do support Israel however, generally.

[hinckley buzzard]

And we all remember with admiration the great strides toward MidEast peace that were made by GHWB and Brent Scowcroft. Obviously, he's a real expert.

[SubMareener]

Even discounting the fact that you can't trust the MSM to quote anyone accurately, Scowcroft keeps saying things that lead on to believe that he has lost touch with reality, if he ever had any. No one, with the exception of Laura, and his girls have George W. Bush wrapped aroung their finger.

[dagnabbit]

How nice to hear from this bitter little House of Saud Employee.

[StAnDeliver]

Note to Scowlcroft: You want Sec'y of State under Kerry? Take a ticket, take a seat -- you are the 8th moron to apply for the job in the last 30 days...

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Scowcroft must be smoking the crack pipe with P.Diddly or Sean John or whatever alias he goes by. Bush/Cheney 2004

[af_vet_1981]

How nice to hear from this bitter little House of Saud Employee.

Hatred of Israel opens doors to many places, including hell.

[cynicom]

Scowcraft needs to go away, he had his 15 minutes long ago. He was a toady military person that toadied his way into civilian government. Like a mole, cant get rid of the old SOB.

[dennisw]

 

General Sharon is a 10 foot tall Titan compared to this pipsqueak punk Scowcroft. I'll match Ariel Sharon military record any time against Scowcroft's........Who has made millions and millions in facilitating business deals with commie China.

 

In the course of his military career, General Scowcroft has held positions in the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Other assignments included faculty positions at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Assistant Air Attaché in the American Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

[ladyinred]

My God, is there nothing these people won't do or say? How silly is this? Yes, Sharon has dealt with terrorism for years now in Israel, and yes, the Pali's are TERRORISTS!!!! We are a nation in big trouble.

[JSteff]

SteveMcKing Since Sep 11, 2004

Well welcome aboard.

"Israel had had nukes for 30 years. I wonder how often - and in what manner - they have chosen to remind the United States of that fact."

I think most people have memories and would not need to be reminded. Israel has never played up that it has nukes, in fact just the opposite. They talk about it less than people like you.

Show me the link to where there is an article that Israel just played up it's capabilities. Did Israel us them in the Yom Kippur war? They were attacked by Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt... in fact the only direction they were not attacked from was the sea.

Do you think any of their neighbors (if they had nukes) would have acted with such reserve if they were in the same situation? I doubt it.

Nice try.

[Piranha]

The most disturbing part of this article is that Scowcroft is in contact with Condoleezza Rice. Now that's scary!

[gaspar]

It should be recalled that when Secretary of State James Baker fired Richard Clark, who was cordially despised at the State Department, it was Scowcroft who got him a job on the National Security Council. And the rest, they say, is history.

[not-a-neocon]

I doubt they have nukes. If they did, the USA would demand they be destroyed. The USA hasn't demanded of them to destroy their nukes, ergo they don't have them.

Simple logic.

[ladyinred]

What on earth do you mean by your nukes remark?