Neo-conservatives Quotes
Scowcroft and Colin Powell had been key military and security advisors to President George W. Bush’s father when he was President. The younger Bush had no foreign policy or military experience, and he and his party assured the public that with men like Scowcroft and Powell advising him, all would be well. However, when Bush thought of invading Iraq, Scowcroft and Powell strongly advised him against it, but the younger Bush ignored the advice of these men who had served the nation so well under his father. Scowcroft’s warning could not have been more accurate.
This is an interesting quotation which gives a foreign Muslim perspective on the Neoconservatives.
The planners of this particular war effort involved many ideologically correct supporters of a neo conservative agenda from the United States and the other Allies more knowledgeable diplomats and military people were kept our of the effort lest they disagree with administration ideology or policy. The result was a very badly mismanaged occupation phase of the war after a very well managed invasion effort.
The official asked the Chairman if he could, instead of flying our U2 Reconnaissance planes over Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, instead of the safe 70,000 feet, fly the plane much lower so the Iraqis could shoot it down, and then we would have a valid reason to invade Iraq and remove Saddam. Saddam had signed a surrender agreement in the Gulf War giving us the right to overfly all of Iraq, but Saddam claimed that regardless it was sovereign air space, and started to fire missiles at American coalition planes recording any troop movement and weapons intelligence. But the Iraqi weapons were no danger to the American planes as long as they flew high enough. Technically, legally America could change the regime if Saddam had short down an American plane, but in addition to the excuse to start a war, an American pilot of the low flying planes.
