{"id":1408,"date":"2004-10-14T04:31:44","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T04:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2004-10-14T04:31:44","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T04:31:44","slug":"2004-10-14-scowcroft-on-bush-and-sharon-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"Scowcroft on Bush and Sharon"},"content":{"rendered":"
That wishy-washy liberal,Brent Scowcroft<\/a>, tells the Financial Times what he thinks of the relationship between Bush and Sharon:<\/p>\n

But speaking to the FT, Mr Scowcroft, 79, went a step further in
attacking some of the president’s core foreign policies. “Sharon
just has him wrapped around his little finger,” Mr Scowcroft
said. “I think the president is mesmerised.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“When there is a suicide attack (followed by a reprisal) Sharon
calls the president and says, ‘I’m on the front line of
terrorism’, and the president says, ‘Yes, you are. . . ‘ He (Mr
Sharon) has been nothing but trouble.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr Scowcroft also cast doubt on Mr Sharon’s plan to withdraw from
the Gaza Strip, which last week Dov Weisglass, a leading Israeli
adviser, said was intended to prevent the emergence of a
Palestinian state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“When I first heard Sharon was getting out of Gaza I was having
dinner with Condi (Rice) and she said: ‘At least that’s good
news.’ And I said: ‘That’s terrible news . . . Sharon will say:
‘I want to get out of Gaza, finish the wall (the Israelis’
security fence) and say I’m done’.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That wishy-washy liberal,Brent Scowcroft<\/a>, tells the Financial Times what he thinks of the relationship between Bush and Sharon:<\/p>\n

But speaking to the FT, Mr Scowcroft, 79, went a step further in
\nattacking some of the president’s core foreign policies. “Sharon
\njust has him wrapped around his little finger,” Mr Scowcroft
\nsaid. “I think the president is mesmerised.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“When there is a suicide attack (followed by a reprisal) Sharon
\ncalls the president and says, ‘I’m on the front line of
\nterrorism’, and the president says, ‘Yes, you are. . . ‘ He (Mr
\nSharon) has been nothing but trouble.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr Scowcroft also cast doubt on Mr Sharon’s plan to withdraw from
\nthe Gaza Strip, which last week Dov Weisglass, a leading Israeli
\nadviser, said was intended to prevent the emergence of a
\nPalestinian state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“When I first heard Sharon was getting out of Gaza I was having
\ndinner with Condi (Rice) and she said: ‘At least that’s good
\nnews.’ And I said: ‘That’s terrible news . . . Sharon will say:
\n‘I want to get out of Gaza, finish the wall (the Israelis’
\nsecurity fence) and say I’m done’.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[59,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}