Scowcroft's New Yorker article ok'd by Poppy?

[CatWoman]

I think I read in some thread the observation that Brent Scowcroft's interview in the New Yorker magazine had Poppy Bush's blessing.

I believe the poster was Old Lefty Lawyer.

The more I think about it, the more I agree with OLL.

Poppy gave Brent the OK to blast Chimpy's White House with both barrels.

Bush is an abomination, as are his policies.

And I don't think Poppy wants to be associated with any of it.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001024.html

[soleft]

1. Everything Bush has done has always been about his father

Unable to get his father's love he's tried to show the elder Bush he's better - he even has a better father that he consults with.

It only makes sense that Bush the elder would want to stick it to his son. Dysfuntion works both ways.

[still_one]

2. no way, the old man would have never approved it

in fact the first war on iraq was based on his incompentence. When the ambassador to Iraq tells hussein that we would turn our back if he went into Kuwait, or when his administration assurred the Shiites that we would support any uprising, and then were nowhere to be seen

They come from the same breed, it is just that the son is more ruthless

[applegrove]

3. Someone suggested Bush Sr. & son have not been talking of late.

Don't know if there is any truth to that. I'd be embarrassed.

[YDogg]

4. Poppy will always bear some responsibility for the Spawn of Barbara.

I can see why he would want to distance himself from the Spawn's failures, but my guess is that family trumps country.

[Toots]

5. I think he is trying to do what he thinks is best for his son.

I think he feels his son has fallen in with a bad lot and he is trying to extricate him (tough love). What he doesn't realize or won't admit is that Bush* is in his element. He hasn't fallen in with a bad crowd he is one of their leaders.

[CatWoman]

7. slight edit

He hasn't fallen in with a bad crowd he is one of their CHEERleaders.

:D

[shance]

6. It appears George Sr. wants George Jr. to engage in the dirty work that

Senior stands to profit from.

Then articles like this come out, where he politely disowns his son by using his "best" friend to write an accurate but apparently questionably sincere article about how wrong this Administration has been?

Have George Sr. and or Scowcroft done anything to try and stop this train wreck? And if anyone could THEY COULD. If anyone could call the whole charade off, Bush Senior could have. But he hasn't lifted a finger really. Except to cry for aid (where it goes, God only knows) on the natural disasters that Bush Jr had part in creating much of. And George Sr. and the Carlyle Group has benefitted.

I think George H.W. Bush is in many ways worse in this whole debacle because he has done nothing to guide his son, or perhaps he has? Perhaps he has been part of this whole problem and now is throwing his son over the ship? Who knows? So little surprises me any more. One thing is certain George Bush Sr. has done vastly nothing to help or solve any of these problems and make this a good presidency, and again, you know he could. To me it looks as though he has engaged in competition with his own son.

Of course to all of these individuals in the equation, including George Sr. and probably Scowcroft, all the attacks and natural disasters are not problems and they are not incompentence.

They are plans and agendas by design. What seems more apparent is they act on cue as though they are outraged, when we know they are anything but outraged.