“…Brent Scowcroft, the former national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, warned in a [August 15, 2002] Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled ‘Don’t Attack Saddam’ that an invasion of Iraq would be both a diversion from and an impediment to the war against al Qaeda. He felt ‘our preeminent security policy…is the war on terrorism,’ which a war with Iraq ‘would seriously jeopardize’ because the unpopularity of an attack on Iraq would result in a ‘serious degradation in international cooperation with us against terrorism.’ ”
– Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Pages 20-21