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In today's New York Times(8-16-02)

Kissinger,Scowcroft, and Eagleburger were higlighted in the previous reply from the Congressional Record and the New York Times highlighted the same three in a front page story.......................................

Top Republicans Break With Bush on Iraq Strategy
By TODD S. PURDUM and PATRICK E. TYLER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — Leading Republicans from Congress, the State Department and past administrations have begun to break ranks with President Bush over his administration's high-profile planning for war with Iraq, saying the administration has neither adequately prepared for military action nor made the case that it is needed.

These senior Republicans include former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft, the first President Bush's national security adviser. All say they favor the eventual removal of Saddam Hussein, but some say they are concerned that Mr. Bush is proceeding in a way that risks alienating allies, creating greater instability in the Middle East, and harming long-term American interests. They add that the administration has not shown that Iraq poses an urgent threat to the United States.

Also today, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who was briefly secretary of state for Mr. Bush's father, told ABC News that unless Mr. Hussein "has his hand on a trigger that is for a weapon of mass destruction, and our intelligence is clear, I don't know why we have to do it now, when all our allies are opposed to it."

Last week, Representative Dick Armey, the House majority leader, raised similar concerns.

The comments by Mr. Scowcroft and others in the Republican foreign policy establishment appeared to be a loosely coordinated effort. Mr. Scowcroft first spoke out publicly 10 days ago on the CBS News program "Face the Nation."

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Judicial Order in the BNL Case
Issued by Judge Marvin Shoob on
October 5, 1992.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA,
ATLANTA DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERlCA,
Plaintiff,

v.

CHRISTOPHER P. DROGOUL,
Defendant

CRIMINAL ACTION 1:91-cr-078-MHS

This case involves billions of dollars raised and loaned in
international finance. It involves allegations of an international
bank fraud that may have helped pay for Iraq's military build-up.
But the more important issue before this Court involves a man's
liberty and serious questions about the integrity of our justice
system and the almost unreviewable powers of prosecutorial
discretion. The Court's judgment and decisions throughout the
hearings and motions before it have been guided by its belief that
there is a moral component to the Court's involvement in this case
the responsibility to do the right thing.

This order will set forth the reasons the Court will grant the
Government's motion to recuse and why the Court, on October 1,
1992, orally granted defendant Christopher P. Drogoul's renewed
motion to withdraw his guilty plea.

I. BACKGROUND OF THE CASE

For almost three weeks, the Court has heard evidence relating to
the sentencing of Mr. Drogoul who entered a guilty plea to 60
counts of a 347-count indictment on June 2, 1992, and faced a life
sentence. The indictment centers on charges that Mr. Drogoul, the
manager of the Atlanta branch of one of Italy's largest banks,
defrauded the parent bank ("BNL") by making some $2 billion in
unauthorized loans to Iraq and other countries. A number of these
loans were backed by the Department of Agriculture's Commodity
Credit Corporation ("CCC"). The indictment also includes charges
of tax evasion, making false reports to government agencies and
money laundering. Mr. Drogoul is the highest ranking BNL official
indicted and the focus of the Government's prosecution.