WASHINGTON -- If you wonder how journalists have puzzled through the twists and turns of this secretive Bush administration, let me tell you a personal story from three years ago that culminated in some stunning revelations this week.
It was August 2002, and the specter of war hung like a dark cape over the city. The radicals in the White House and the Pentagon had long before decided to invade Iraq, and Colin Powell was, with some anguish, agreeing to take their case to the United Nations. It was all only a question of time.
Meanwhile, one of the mysteries that haunted many of us was what Father Bush, the consummate foreign policy realist of the Eastern Establishment, was really thinking about his son's unilateralist and utopian ideas. It seemed obvious that the first President Bush would disagree with the son's policies, but he was, as always, immensely discreet.
It was at that point 1) that I was able to confirm from three excellent sources close to George H.W. Bush that he was, indeed, in serious disagreement with his son, and 2) that Gen. Brent Scowcroft, his close friend and former national security adviser, wrote a startling op-ed in The Wall Street Journal under the rather clarifying headline: "DON'T ATTACK SADDAM."
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