Brent Scowcroft is one name that comes to mind:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133

You could come up with many, many articles like this if you tried.

>I will not getting into a pissing contest of who knows more you or me <g>.
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>But the question I asked of walter still stands. Nobody, before the war, predicted the level of violence - suicidal violence of iraqis again their own civilian people.
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>I think there is a lot of valid criticism of Bush administration and their handling of the war. But some do it just because they hate Bush.
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>>This comment alone shows how little you obviously know about the history leading up to this event.
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>>You really need to do some investigating first. Jsut off the top of my head, you should easily be able to find an article somewhere talking about how one of the main reason for the first Gulf war stopping when it did was Bush Sr. hesistence to go and topple Saddam because of the information he was receiving about possible senarios in that event.
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>>The most famous quote in this regard is Colin Powell telling bush jr. on his desire to start a war with Iraq and topple Saddam, "you break it, you own it."
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>>>>That there is terrorism in Iraq is something you could know even before invading. Do you really think the soenies would happily accept the new situation ?? Come one...?
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>>>Could you show ONE link to a news analysis or an article published before the invasion that indicates a threat of possible violence of iraqis-against-iraqis?