Posted on 06/22/2016 7:50:27 PM PDT by usafa92
Brent Scowcroft, the national security advisor to President George H.W. Bush and one of the leading figures of the Republican national security establishment, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president Wednesday.
The endorsement is the most high-profile indication yet of the depth of discomfort that Republican foreign policy figures feel about Donald Trump as their party's nominee.
The Clinton campaign sees doubts about Trump's ability to handle foreign policy as a major plus for their side. Endorsements by well-known Republican foreign policy figures could add to her advantage on that front.
"The presidency requires the judgment and knowledge to make tough calls under pressure," Scowcroft said in a statement in which he did not mention Trump's name. Clinton "has the wisdom and experience to lead our country at this critical time."
Scowcroft, 91, served in senior positions under Presidents Ford and Reagan, in addition to his post in the first President Bush's White House. He served as an informal advisor to President George W. Bush, although his public warnings against going to war in Iraq distanced him from the administration.
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They should have listed his age in the article. Also, he may have something in his past he doesn’t want to come to light.
The New World Order thing.
Scowcroft was a Chinese Communist apologist.
He ended up a whore for them.
After Tiananmen Square June 4 1989, Scowcroft was in Beijing secretly in July assuring the ChiComs that the US was still supporting them and to ignore the pro-freedom rhetoric coming from the US after the massacre.
True traitor scum.
Trump is flushing out the traitors from the GOP, young and senile.
Do not blame dementia; Scowcroft has been an ignorant ass since he worked for Ford.
More than "Saudi-backed" (financially), as the case may be, and it goes back for quite some time. They literally *own* her, in my opinion...
the infowarrior
Exactly. The man is 91 after all.
Yep! I rather like that the globalists are outing themselves. Trump nailed it today: the combatants are "globalism" and "Americanism." The battle lines having been thus drawn, I'll put my money on Americanism every time!
Scowcroft has lost his mind.
Bingo
Exactly.
An old RINO from way back when.
Clintons and Bushes are exactly the same, this is just more proof. If you loved W, you’ll love Hillary.
It was Brent Scowcroft and Robert Gates who advocated an act of war with North Korea back in 1994 when U.S. intelligence revealed that North Korea had removed spent fuel rods from a nuclear reactor, placed them in a cooling pond and perhaps was about to reprocess the used uranium to provide plutonium for up to six nuclear weapons. Scowcroft and Gates demanded that Clinton order the U.S. to bomb the reprocessing plant.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WE ONCE TRUSTED TO DIRECT THE DEFENSE OF OUR NATION?
THE POWERS THAT BE HERE SOULD REINSTATE EVERY FREEPER ZOTTED FOR BUSH BASHING DURING DUBYAS TERMS
Both the Clinton and Bush administrations played a key role in helping the late Kim Jong-Il develop North Korea’s nuclear prowess from the mid 1990’s onwards and this buffoon endorses Hillary?
Street lamps and gibbets
Lots of gibbets
As a warning never ever to let the enemies within get this close again
He probably wants to have another war.
Is Scowcroft a Mormon?? He’s an IDIOT.
“Scowcroft 91” for crying out loud he’s 91 and probably senile is there anything the press won’t dig up, they may have to literally dig him up to vote come November!!!
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