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Brent Scowcroft, prominent elder statesman, has died
ABC ^ | 8/7/2020 | Martha Raddatz andLuis Martinez

Posted on 08/07/2020 9:20:46 AM PDT by Borges

Brent Scowcroft, the former Air Force general who served as the national security adviser under Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, has died at the age of 95, according to a statement from The Scowcroft Group.

Scowcroft is best known for his tenure in the Bush administration and his handling of the Persian Gulf War and remained one of the nation's most prominent elder statesmen and well-known experts on international security matters.

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KEYWORDS: brentscowcroft; brentscowcroftobit; bushadm; fordadm; ghwbushadm
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1 posted on 08/07/2020 9:20:46 AM PDT by Borges
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Mr. Globalist Deep Stater meets his judgement.


2 posted on 08/07/2020 9:24:47 AM PDT by bkopto
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Bush swamp deep state.


3 posted on 08/07/2020 9:29:31 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Borges

Brent Scowcroft will always have a place in the history books as the appeaser who scurried to Beijing to raise a glass to the Communist tyrants who’d just smashed a pro-democracy uprising.


4 posted on 08/07/2020 9:30:22 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Borges

Hillary supporter.


5 posted on 08/07/2020 9:33:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: Borges
The fact that Martha Radditz is praising him very probably means that he was a Swamp Creature.
6 posted on 08/07/2020 9:34:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: Borges

the ultimate War Pig and neocon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfKHqNKy6HU


7 posted on 08/07/2020 9:35:10 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: cotton1706

Really? Well,that would explain Martha Radditz.


8 posted on 08/07/2020 9:36:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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9 posted on 08/07/2020 9:38:29 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Borges

WHO?

If a Swamp Dweller dies in the swamp does anyone really know or care?


10 posted on 08/07/2020 9:38:52 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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11 posted on 08/07/2020 9:40:25 AM PDT by nwrep
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12 posted on 08/07/2020 9:41:53 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Gay State Conservative

Symptomatic of so many of Trump’s enemies, isn’t it?

Stereotypical: complete Bush, Deep State-RINO-Internationalist-East Coast GROPElite Republican Washington Insider. Connected to the Washington insiders through every promotion past O-5 in the military.


13 posted on 08/07/2020 9:42:22 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
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14 posted on 08/07/2020 9:43:16 AM PDT by nwrep
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...prominent elder statesman...

Says who?

15 posted on 08/07/2020 9:49:22 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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It’s nicer than “cuck hack.”


16 posted on 08/07/2020 9:56:46 AM PDT by j.havenfarm ( Beginning my 20th year on FR! 2,500+ replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Borges

He is the guy who was sent to China after the Tiananmen Square massacre to tell the ChiComs not to worry, that the U.S. still supported them and the things they said condemning the massacre were just for public consumption.


17 posted on 08/07/2020 9:59:49 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Borges

Definition

statesman: a dead politician.


18 posted on 08/07/2020 10:01:25 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: Robert A Cook PE
Great description.

You nailed it !

Leni

19 posted on 08/07/2020 10:01:49 AM PDT by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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To: ifinnegan

I always thought of him as just a simple failure.30 years later more of us know about the deep state.


20 posted on 08/07/2020 10:02:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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