Richard Perle in retrospect

When he has answered for his old BS then, and only then, should his new BS be addressed.


It was Perle afterall, who said on May 2, 2003 "Relax, Celebrate Victory"

Give a look to both articles


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Europe lacks moral fibre, says US hawk

Edward Pilkington and Ewen MacAskill
Wednesday November 13, 2002
The Guardian

Richard Perle, a leading Pentagon adviser on Iraq, last night launched an extraordinary tirade against Europe which he accused of losing its moral direction and providing succour to Saddam Hussein.
"I think Europe has lost its moral compass. Many Europeans have become so obsessed by the prospect of violence they have failed to notice who we are dealing with," he said in an interview with the Guardian.

Mr Perle expressed serious reservations about the United Nations chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, and the ability of his team to disarm Iraq.


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"Germany has subsided into a moral numbing pacifism. For the German chancellor to say he will have nothing to do with action against Saddam Hussein, even if approved by the United Nations, is unilateralism," Mr Perle said.


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Did the French show more signs of moral fibre? "I have seen diplomatic manoeuvre, but not moral fibre," Mr Perle said.


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"I don't see how anyone, particularly any liberal, can say anything that can be construed as protecting the regime of Saddam Hussein. And yet that's the position that many on the left have taken."


I DON'T SEE HOW ANYONE COULD EITHER, BUT YOU DID.

more....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,838938,00.html


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"Relax, Celebrate Victory," By Richard Perle

2 May 2003

Richard Perle op-ed article in USA Today

This byliner by Richard Perle, a member of the Defense Policy Board, first appeared in USA Today May 2 and is in the public domain. No republication restrictions.

Relax, Celebrate Victory
Richard Perle

From start to finish, President Bush has led the United States and its coalition partners to the most important military victory since World War II. And like the allied victory over the axis powers, the liberation of Iraq is more than the end of a brutal dictatorship: It is the foundation for a decent, humane government that will represent all the people of Iraq.

This was a war worth fighting. It ended quickly with few civilian casualties and with little damage to Iraq's cities, towns or infrastructure. It ended without the Arab world rising up against us, as the war's critics feared, without the quagmire they predicted, without the heavy losses in house-to-house fighting they warned us to expect. It was conducted with immense skill and selfless courage by men and women who will remain until Iraqis are safe, and who will return home as heroes.

In full retreat, the war's opponents have now taken up new defensive positions: "Yes, it was a military victory, but you haven't found Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction." Or, "Yes, we destroyed Saddam's regime, but now other dictators will try even harder to develop weapons of mass destruction to make sure they will not fall to some future American preemptive strike."

We will find Saddam's well-hidden chemical and biological weapons programs, but only when people who know come forward and tell us where to look. While Saddam was in power, even a hint about his concealment and deception was a death sentence, often by unimaginable torture against whole families. Saddam had four years to hide things. We have had a few weeks to find them. Patience — and some help from free Iraqis — will be rewarded.

The idea that our victory over Saddam will drive other dictators to develop chemical and biological weapons misses the key point: They are already doing so. That's why we may someday need to preempt rather than wait until we are attacked.

Iran, Syria, North Korea, Libya, these and other nations are relentless in their pursuit of terror weapons. Does anyone seriously argue that they would abandon their programs if we had left Saddam in power? It is a little like arguing that we should not subdue knife-wielding criminals because, if we do, other criminals will go out and get guns. Moreover, this argument, deployed by those who will not take victory for an answer, confuses cause and effect: Does any peaceful state that neither harbors terrorists nor seeks weapons of mass destruction fear that we will launch a preemptive strike against it? Who are they? Why would they?

Iraqis are freer today and we are safer. Relax and enjoy it.

(Richard Perle, assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, is a member of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon on military affairs.)


more.......


http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/press/0502perle.htm


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Great post, coda! Thanks for the heads-up!



Some people have a gift for words.

NONETHELESS ... no time for complacency on this one! The man simply sends me spinning when he chooses to "advertise" (ever so conviniently) that he is a registered democrat ... sorry, but does he really think it says "lollipop" across our democratic foreheads???

He gives :puke: a bad name.

of the party. RP is now at the top of my list. He is only a democrat because he is too lazy to change his registration.

He sure looks like an idiot now doesn't he.
Al Gore is right. These people have to go and shame on any democrats who have enabled this insane administration.

...dedicated to having Richard Perle (and other neocons) permanently blacklisted from any position of authority or advisory capacity, formal or informal, in which he could influence in any way whatsoever the policy and prectices of the United States of America.

Perle: putting the non grata in persona.