Ex-National Security Adviser is Critical of Bush - Calls Iraq a 'Failing Venture
/Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to
President George H.W. Bush, was highly critical of the current
president's handling of foreign policy in an interview published this
week, saying that the current President Bush is "mesmerized" by Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, that Iraq is a "failing venture" and that
the administration's unilateralist approach has harmed relations
between Europe and the United States. Scowcroft's remarks,
reported in London's Financial Times, are unusual coming from a leading
Republican less than three weeks before a highly contested election. In
the first Bush administration, Scowcroft was a mentor to Condoleezza
Rice, the current national security adviser, and he is regarded as a
close associate of the president's father. [more 
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