I think I saw someone else refer to Scowcroft and Wilkerson both deciding to come forth with such similar criticisms right now.... Don't know it was coordinated, but that's what's been suggested - I'm trying to find that reference. ....and that Wilkerson has discussed his experience of the first Bush administration as one of the best in national security/international affairs. That doesn't mean he knew Scowcroft, of course, but something sticks in my mind about a connection between them (might be just my imagination!!).
All this 'cabal' nonsense coming from supposedly respectable people like Wilkerson and Scowcroft is just disgusting. They (like the left) are turning political disagreements and strategic policy debates into a truly despicable onslaught. Yes, I know that RINOs like Wilkerson and Scowcroft think that they know best how to run the world, but essentially they are just the 'internationalist' Dem-RINO party of the Council on Foreign Relations, etc. that thinks nothing is more important than pleasing Europe and other governments such as Saudi Arabia. Scowcroft, Powell, et al left Saddam in power to please their "international coalition" -- throughout the '90s we got blasted in "international opinion" for supposedly letting babies die because Saddam would not comply with the '91 ceasefire terms and then the "oil for food" debacle was the next step..... the great "international coalition" of Scowcroft-Powell under the first Bush tied our hands and that policy track would have left Saddam and his psychotic sons in power forever.