"Thank you. Haven't James Woolsey and Brent Scowcroft been against the Iraq war all along?"
Yes! We have a winner ... While, this is not a Moore-ish leftwing outfit, they are in the 'realist' camp of not wanting to overthrow baddies like Saddam, because you never know, next might be the Saudi royal family... Scowcroft and Kissinger were tight with Saudis, and this groups views tend to have an "Arabist" flair to them (ie, 'let them have their Arab dictatorships' policy, that Bush has rightly slammed as leading to the current dyfunction in the Arab world).
While Cordesman is pessimistic, you have to grant that it is better not to underestimate the difficulty of the task at hand, and the difficulty has been underestimated.
they are in the 'realist' camp of not wanting to overthrow baddies like Saddam, because you never know, next might be the Saudi royal family:
A) whether the devil you know might be preferable to the one you DON'T know,
and
B) just what kind of can of worms you may be opening up!
PS Are you (snort) implying that the people you mention are bigger buddies of the Saudis than the Bushes?