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THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Retired Officials Say Bush Must Go
The 26 ex-diplomats and military leaders say his foreign policy has harmed
national security. Several served under Republicans.
By Ronald Brownstein
Times Staff Writer

June 13, 2004

WASHINGTON - A group of 26 former senior diplomats and military officials,
several appointed to key positions by Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and
George H.W. Bush, plans to issue a joint statement this week arguing that
President George W. Bush has damaged America's national security and should be
defeated in November.

The group, which calls itself Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, will
explicitly condemn Bush's foreign policy, according to several of those who
signed the document.

"It is clear that the statement calls for the defeat of the administration,"
said William C. Harrop, the ambassador to Israel under President Bush's father
and one of the group's principal organizers.

Those signing the document, which will be released in Washington on Wednesday,
include 20 former U.S. ambassadors, appointed by presidents of both parties, to
countries including Israel, the former Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia.

Others are senior State Department officials from the Carter, Reagan and Clinton
administrations and former military leaders, including retired Marine Gen.
Joseph P. Hoar, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East under
President Bush's father. Hoar is a prominent critic of the war in Iraq.

Some of those signing the document - such as Hoar and former Air Force Chief of
Staff Merrill A. McPeak - have identified themselves as supporters of Sen. John
F. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. But most have not
endorsed any candidate, members of the group said.

It is unusual for so many former high-level military officials and career
diplomats to issue such an overtly political message during a presidential
campaign.

A senior official at the Bush reelection campaign said he did not wish to
comment on the statement until it was released.

But in the past, administration officials have rejected charges that Bush has
isolated America in the world, pointing to countries contributing troops to the
coalition in Iraq and the unanimous passage last week of the U.N. resolution
authorizing the interim Iraqi government.

One senior Republican strategist familiar with White House thinking said he did
not think the group was sufficiently well-known to create significant political
problems for the president.

The strategist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, also said the
signatories were making an argument growing increasingly obsolete as Bush leans
more on the international community for help in Iraq.

"Their timing is a little off, particularly in the aftermath of the most recent
U.N. resolution," the strategist said. "It seems to me this is a collection of
resentments that have built up, but it would have been much more powerful months
ago than now when even the president's most disinterested critics would say we
have taken a much more multilateral approach" in Iraq.

But those signing the document say the recent signs of cooperation do not
reverse a basic trend toward increasing isolation for the U.S.

"We just felt things were so serious, that America's leadership role in the
world has been attenuated to such a terrible degree by both the style and the
substance of the administration's approach," said Harrop, who served as
ambassador to four African countries under Carter and Reagan.

"A lot of people felt the work they had done over their lifetime in trying to
build a situation in which the United States was respected and could lead the
rest of the world was now undermined by this administration - by the arrogance,
by the refusal to listen to others, the scorn for multilateral organizations,"
Harrop said.

Jack F. Matlock Jr., who was appointed by Reagan as ambassador to the Soviet
Union and retained in the post by President Bush's father during the final years
of the Cold War, expressed similar views.

"Ever since Franklin Roosevelt, the U.S. has built up alliances in order to
amplify its own power," he said. "But now we have alienated many of our closest
allies, we have alienated their populations. We've all been increasingly
appalled at how the relationships that we worked so hard to build up have simply
been shattered by the current administration in the method it has gone about
things."

The GOP strategist noted that many of those involved in the document claimed
their primary expertise in the Middle East and suggested a principal motivation
for the statement might be frustration over Bush's effort to fundamentally
reorient policy toward the region.

"For 60 years we believed in quote-unquote stability at the price of liberty,
and what we got is neither liberty nor stability," the strategist said. "So we
are taking a fundamentally different approach toward the Middle East. That is a
huge doctrinal shift, and the people who have given their lives, careers to
building the previous foreign policy consensus, see this as a direct
intellectual assault on what they have devoted their lives to. And it is. We
think what a lot of people came up with was a failure - or at least, in the
present world in which we live, it is no longer sustainable."

Sponsors of the effort counter that several in the group have been involved in
developing policy affecting almost all regions of the globe.

The document will echo a statement released in April by a group of high-level
former British diplomats condemning Prime Minister Tony Blair for being too
closely aligned to U.S. policy in Iraq and Israel. Those involved with the new
group said their effort was already underway when the British statement was
released.

The signatories said Kerry's campaign played no role in the formation of their
group. Phyllis E. Oakley, the deputy State Department spokesman during Reagan's
second term and an assistant secretary of state under Clinton, said she
suspected "some of them [in the Kerry campaign] may have been aware of it," but
that "the campaign had no role" in organizing the group.

Stephanie Cutter, Kerry's communications director, also said that the Kerry
campaign had not been involved in devising the group's statement.

The document does not explicitly endorse Kerry, according to those familiar with
it. But some individual signers plan to back the Democrat, and others
acknowledge that by calling for Bush's removal, the group effectively is urging
Americans to elect Kerry.

"The core of the message is that we are so deeply concerned about the current
direction of American foreign policy . that we think it is essential for the
future security of the United States that a new foreign policy team come in,"
said Oakley.

Much of the debate over the document in the days ahead may pivot on the extent
to which it is seen as a partisan document.

A Bush administration ally said that the group failed to recognize how the Sept.
11 attacks required significant changes in American foreign policy. "There's no
question those who were responsible for policies pre-9/11 are denying what seems
as the obvious - that those policies were inadequate," said Cliff May, president
of the conservative advocacy group Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

"This seems like a statement from 9/10 people [who don't see] the importance of
9/11 and the way that should have changed our thinking."

Along with Hoar and McPeak, others who have signed it are identified with the
Democratic Party.

Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., though named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
under Reagan, supported Clinton in 1992. Crowe has endorsed Kerry. Retired Adm.
Stansfield Turner served as Carter's director of central intelligence and has
also endorsed Kerry. Matlock said he was a registered Democrat during most of
his foreign service career, though he voted for Reagan in 1984 and the elder
Bush twice and now is registered as an independent.

Several on the group's list were appointed to their most important posts under
Reagan and the elder Bush. These include Matlock and Harrop, as well as Arthur
A. Hartman, who served as Reagan's ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1981
through 1987; H. Allen Holmes, an assistant secretary of state under Reagan; and
Charles Freeman, ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the elder Bush.

Many on the list have not been previously identified with any political cause or
party. Several "are the kind who have never spoken out before," said James
Daniel Phillips, former ambassador to Burundi and the Congo.

Oakley, Harrop and Matlock said the effort began this year. Matlock said it was
sparked by conversations among "colleagues who had served in senior positions
around the same time, most of them for the Reagan administration and for the
first Bush administration."

Oakley said frustration over the Iraq war was "a large part" of the impetus for
the statement, but the criticism of President Bush "goes much deeper."

The group's complaint about Bush's approach largely tracks Kerry's contention
that the administration has weakened American security by straining traditional
alliances and shifting resources from the war against Al Qaeda to the invasion
of Iraq.

Oakley said the statement would argue that, "Unfortunately the tough stands
[Bush] has taken have made us less secure. He has neglected the war on terrorism
for the war in Iraq. And while we agree that we are in unprecedented times and
we face challenges we didn't even know about before, these challenges require
the cooperation of other countries. We cannot do it by ourselves."

*

(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX)

The signatories

Although not explicitly endorsing Sen. John F. Kerry for president, 26 former
diplomats and military officials, including many who served in Republican
administrations, have signed a statement calling for the defeat of President
Bush in November. Their names and some of the posts they have held are:

Avis T. Bohlen - assistant secretary of State for arms control, 1999-2002;
deputy assistant secretary of State for European affairs, 1989-1991.

Retired Adm. William J. Crowe Jr. - chairman, President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Committee, 1993-94; ambassador to Britain, 1993-97; chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1985-89.

Jeffrey S. Davidow - ambassador to Mexico, 1998-2002; assistant secretary of
State for inter-American affairs, 1996.

William A. DePree - ambassador to Bangladesh, 1987-1990.

Donald B. Easum - ambassador to Nigeria, 1975-79.

Charles W. Freeman Jr. - assistant secretary of Defense for international
security affairs, 1993-94; ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1989-1992.

William C. Harrop - ambassador to Israel, 1991-93; ambassador to Zaire,
1987-1991.

Arthur A. Hartman - ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1981-87; ambassador to
France, 1977-1981.

Retired Marine Gen. Joseph P. Hoar - commander in chief of U.S. Central Command,
overseeing forces in the Middle East, 1991-94; deputy chief of staff, Marine
Corps, 1990-94.

H. Allen Holmes - assistant secretary of Defense for special operations,
1993-99; assistant secretary of State for politico-military affairs, 1986-89.

Robert V. Keeley - ambassador to Greece, 1985-89; ambassador to Zimbabwe,
1980-84.

Samuel W. Lewis - director of State Department policy and planning, 1993-94;
ambassador to Israel, 1977-1985.

Princeton N. Lyman - assistant secretary of State for international organization
affairs, 1995-98; ambassador to South Africa, 1992-95.

Jack F. Matlock Jr. - ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991; director for
European and Soviet affairs, National Security Council, 1983-86; ambassador to
Czechoslovakia, 1981-83.

Donald F. McHenry - ambassador to the United Nations, 1979-1981.

Retired Air Force Gen. Merrill A. McPeak - chief of staff, U.S. Air Force,
1990-94.

George E. Moose - assistant secretary of State for African affairs, 1993-97;
ambassador to Senegal, 1988-91.

David D. Newsom - acting secretary of State, 1980; undersecretary of State for
political affairs, 1978-1981; ambassador to Indonesia, 1973-77.

Phyllis E. Oakley - assistant secretary of State for intelligence and research,
1997-99.

James Daniel Phillips - ambassador to the Republic of Congo, 1990-93; ambassador
to Burundi, 1986-1990.

John E. Reinhardt - ambassador to Nigeria, 1971-75.

Retired Air Force Gen. William Y. Smith - deputy commander in chief, U.S.
European Command, 1981-83.

Ronald I. Spiers - undersecretary-general of the United Nations for political
affairs, 1989-1992; ambassador to Pakistan, 1981-83.

Michael Sterner - deputy assistant secretary of State for Near East affairs,
1977-1981; ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, 1974-76.

Retired Adm. Stansfield Turner - director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
1977-1981.

Alexander F. Watson - assistant secretary of State for inter-American affairs,
1993-96; deputy permanent representative to the U.N., 1989-1993.

*

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traditional=20
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the war=20
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unprecedented times and we face challenges we didn't even know about =
before,=20
these challenges require the cooperation of other countries. We cannot =
do it by=20
ourselves." * (BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX) The=20
signatories Although not explicitly endorsing Sen. John F. Kerry =
for=20
president, 26 former diplomats and military officials, including many =
who served=20
in Republican administrations, have signed a statement calling for the =
defeat of=20
President Bush in November. Their names and some of the posts they have =
held=20
are: Avis T. Bohlen =97 =
assistant=20
secretary of State for arms control, 1999-2002; deputy assistant =
secretary of=20
State for European affairs, 1989-1991. Retired Adm. =
William J.=20
Crowe Jr. =97 chairman, President's Foreign =
Intelligence=20
Advisory Committee, 1993-94; ambassador to Britain, 1993-97; chairman of =
the=20
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1985-89. Jeffrey S.=20
Davidow =97 ambassador to Mexico, 1998-2002; =
assistant=20
secretary of State for inter-American affairs, =
1996. William A.=20
DePree =97 ambassador to Bangladesh,=20
1987-1990. Donald B. Easum =97 ambassador to =
Nigeria,=20
1975-79. Charles W. Freeman Jr. =97 assistant =
secretary of=20
Defense for international security affairs, 1993-94; ambassador to Saudi =
Arabia,=20
1989-1992. William C. Harrop =97 ambassador to =
Israel,=20
1991-93; ambassador to Zaire, 1987-1991. Arthur A. =
Hartman =97=20
ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1981-87; ambassador to France,=20
1977-1981. Retired Marine Gen. Joseph P. Hoar =97=20
commander in chief of U.S. Central Command, overseeing forces =
in the=20
Middle East, 1991-94; deputy chief of staff, Marine Corps,=20
1990-94. H. Allen Holmes =97 assistant secretary =
of=20
Defense for special operations, 1993-99; assistant secretary of State =
for=20
politico-military affairs, 1986-89. Robert V. Keeley =97=20
ambassador to Greece, 1985-89; ambassador to Zimbabwe,=20
1980-84. Samuel W. Lewis =97 director of State =
Department=20
policy and planning, 1993-94; ambassador to Israel,=20
1977-1985. Princeton N. Lyman =97 assistant =
secretary of=20
State for international organization affairs, 1995-98; ambassador to =
South=20
Africa, 1992-95. Jack F. Matlock Jr. =97 =

ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991; director for =
European and=20
Soviet affairs, National Security Council, 1983-86; ambassador to=20
Czechoslovakia, 1981-83. Donald F. McHenry =97 =
ambassador=20
to the United Nations, 1979-1981. Retired Air Force Gen. =
Merrill=20
A. McPeak =97 chief of staff, U.S. Air Force,=20
1990-94. George E. Moose =97 assistant secretary =
of State=20
for African affairs, 1993-97; ambassador to Senegal,=20
1988-91. David D. Newsom =97 acting secretary of =
State,=20
1980; undersecretary of State for political affairs, 1978-1981; =
ambassador to=20
Indonesia, 1973-77. Phyllis E. Oakley =97 =
assistant=20
secretary of State for intelligence and research, =
1997-99. James=20
Daniel Phillips =97 ambassador to the Republic of Congo, =
1990-93;=20
ambassador to Burundi, 1986-1990. John E. Reinhardt=20
=97 ambassador to Nigeria,=20
1971-75. Retired Air Force Gen. William Y. Smith =97=20
deputy commander in chief, U.S. European Command,=20
1981-83. Ronald I. Spiers =97 =
undersecretary-general of=20
the United Nations for political affairs, 1989-1992; ambassador to =
Pakistan,=20
1981-83. Michael Sterner =97 =
deputy=20
assistant secretary of State for Near East affairs, 1977-1981; =
ambassador to the=20
United Arab Emirates, 1974-76. Retired Adm. Stansfield =
Turner =97=20
director of the Central Intelligence Agency,=20
1977-1981. Alexander F. Watson =97 assistant =
secretary of=20
State for inter-American affairs, 1993-96; deputy permanent =
representative to=20
the U.N., 1989-1993. * Source: Diplomats and Military =
Commanders=20
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