US lacked a clear, cohesive policy on Iraq, says Perle

It has suddenly become the season of the tell-all tome. First, there was Paul O'Neill, the former Treasury secretary who told of a Bush administration obsessed by Iraq from day one. Most recently came Richard Clarke, the ex-counterterrorism chief who alleges the White House ignored al-Qaeda until it was too late.


Sandwiched in between, however, and given far less notice, was another book highly critical of those around President George W. Bush, but from a much more surprising source: Richard Perle, the former Pentagon adviser often regarded as the intellectual godfather of the administration's aggressive foreign policy.

Unlike the other books, An End to Evil - co-written by yet another administration émigré, David Frum, a former speechwriter - is careful to steer clear of Mr Bush himself as well as Mr Perle's patron, Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary. But Mr Perle's book takes aim at almost everyone else in the senior reaches of the Bush foreign policy team and accuses many of them of significant failures in the run-up to, and the aftermath of, the war in Iraq.

On the armed forces: "Much of the planning for, and debate about, the Iraq campaign exposed the grip of the dead hand of military tradition." On the State department: "Seldom has the foreign policy bureaucracy inflicted such shameful damage on American interests than in its opposition to working with Saddam's Iraqi opponents." On the CIA: "George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the agency's culture. He has failed. He should go."

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Well, gee, DICK, who if not you was in charge of the bellicose buffoons who just KNEW exactly how to "free the Middle East" and "bring democracy to the long-suffering Iraqis?"

Hear that flopping, splashing sound? It's the sound of the ultimate Neo-Con insider, desperately paddling upstream against the current of the river of shit he himself unleashed.

And the words you chose to express it are perfect.

Mind-boggling, tongue-swallowing, church-bell-ringing hypocrisy

An Iraqi Shiite cleric, member of leader Moqtada al-Sadr's Army of Mehdi militia brandishes his Kalashnikov as he shouts anti-US slogans during a rally in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.(AFP/Patrick Baz

With Iraq going to hell, the Bush administration is going to look to blame this on someone and the lap-dog press is going to go along with it. They will blame it on those opposed to the war for not being patriotic enough. If Kerry gets elected, they are going to try to pin the blame on him somehow. The republicans never take responsibility for anything that they do.

AEI = American Enterprise Institute

,...let them all drown!!!

May the best of the human spirit let go of these subhuman creatures to their fate. They do not "deserve" to survive.

Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect!
Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect! Deflect!

He has sacrificed this nation's security for his own enrichment - he is a POS of the highest order.

This man should be in prision !

This asshole was involved and shooting his mouth off all the way through it. Not to mention he was on all the boards involved with setting the wheels in motion. I personally hope his life and the life of all the other traitors are destroyed as a result of this. I want to see indictment and prison for all of them.

His matter-or-fact comment months ago that the WMD's was just a sell-job for the war foreshadowed this latest wave of evidence that there is no honor amongst criminals.

Oh, yeah, Dicky, everybody's fault the damn thing is crashing like the Hindenburg except for you, and your precious Rumsferatu and Bush.

What "planning"? What "debate"? You fuckers knew you were going back into Iraq ever since Poppy pulled up short in GWI.

YOU, Mr. Perle, are also amongst the ones who convinced yourself that the Iraqi people would be throwing roses and pussy instead of roadside bombs and 7.62 rounds.

But then, it's your book, you can portray your slimey self any way you like, right?

I think after your trial they ought to break your legs and throw in Dumbya's hog pen with the brood sows...

- time to try to slither out of the mess and distance himself from the culpability he shares and place the blame on everyone else. Figures they will try to hang the whole thing on the state dept. who they've been trashing from the beginning and whose advice they ignored.

Let's drop this ass into the front lines and see what happens!

Even give him a parachute. He can pontificate to the locals for a bit - I am sure that they would enjoy engaging him in debate.

,...and he has NO, I repeat NO moral dignity or integrity. I pay no heed whatsoever to anything that comes out of that war-profiteer's mouth. He earned and enjoyed his label as the "Prince of Darkness",...just like Cheney enjoys being labeled as the secretive evil one.

They are both black hearts.

If ANYBODY is to blame, directly for any of this mess, it's Richard Perle, one of the leading lights of PNAC. They don't call him the Prince of Darkness for nothing. What a weasel!

Actually, he also qualifies as a rat. One of those now scrambling to desert a sinking ship. NOW you say it was a bad plan, Perle? This was originally YOUR plan.

chickenhawk fuggers as they
flee the manure pile they created

F***ING COWARDS

Watching evil turn upon itself. Watching the shit really hit the fan as these traitorous cowards throw each other to the wolves to save their own hides.

I'm beginning to believe it's really breaking down for them. They're cracking like an egg in a vice. The question is: how far will they go in their desperation? A trapped, wounded animal is the most dangerous of all.

And the sun came up first in Greenland.

Um .... Perle is NOT criticizing the Neocons: he is criticizing Powell and the cooler heads in the DoD and CIA ....

He is admonishing State for NOT working with Chalibi ... He is criticizing the "grip of the dead hand of military tradition", IE those in the DoD who did NOT want to attack Iraq or agree with the specific war planning vis a vis Wolfotwitz and Rumsmells ...

Perle is angry that NOT ENOUGH toed the PNAC/Vulcan line of BS ...

You have hit that nail on its head!!!!

"Seldom has the foreign policy bureaucracy inflicted such shameful damage on American interests than in its opposition to working with Saddam's Iraqi opponents."

Everything, EVERYTHING I've read since the war indicates it was the morons who BELIEVED every word out of Chalabi's mouth that were the true screwups in this situation. They were the ones claiming Saddam had WMD. They were the ones feeding us false intelligence. And now this penultimate asshole blames the people who didn't believe the liars.

This guy is scum.

David Frum and Richard Perle, along with all their Straussian neocon friends, are out-and-out traitors who need to be lined up against the wall and shot after the war crimes trials have sufficiently proved their treasonous criminality.

This isn't a "tell-all tome", fuck you very much Mr. Peter Spiegel - nice shilling, you 'useful idiot'!

just tell this shithead to shut up. I'm sick and tired of watching his lips flapping. What a worthless excuse for a human. If only his neocon pals let him rule without any interference everything would have worked out just perfect. Yeah, right Dick Head.

when it comes to

1) integrity, they have none.

2) solidarity - in your dreams.

3) take responsibility for their actions - hah.

4) a profit motive - now you're cookin'

Richard Perle is like a rat sitting on a sinking ship. He has noticed the water line is moving up, as the PNAC plans have been shot to shit over the past year. He is an arms dealer and would sell his mother for $5.00, if he could get it. He would betray the US in a heartbeat. All he understands is money.

I noticed that William Kristol, also one of the founding fathers of the PNAC, is full of criticism against the very organization he formed. I read his newsletter a while back, and he had lots to complain about.

Just goes to show you these people have 0 loyalty to each other, much less the US which harbors these criminals.

He's just now realizing that the only songs people will be singing about the neocons in the future are likely to be quite rude and make prominent use of the words "pompous assholes".


They will discover Richard Perle, member and former chair of the Defense Policy Board, who rhapsodized, "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/07/03_heroes.html

Who was it, Lily Tomlin?, who said:
"No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up."

another one of her great lines: We're the NeoCons. We don't care. We don't have to.

assh**le in charge? He is Cromwell isn't he? Here's hoping his fate is the same.

He is criticizing the PALEOCONS ....

The 'clear, concise policies' he wanted was TOTAL agreement with the Neocons ...

PLEASE dont misread this .... he is NOT disagreeing with his buds at AEI/PNAC .... he is criticizing those who disagreed with the AEI/PNAC in ANY way ...

He is pure slime ...

should be the one to go. He should have never been a part of Bush the Boob's administration. This creator of Bushco foreign twisted policy is trying to past the buck, of course, like the yellow belly warped scum that he is.

Children everywhere will sing great songs years from now about the downfall of this foul and vile piece of filth.

I AM AND YOU WENT AHEAD AND FOLLOWED MY PLAN ANYWAY!

If you go back to ACTUAL testimony and ACTUAL reportage in the lead up to the Iraqi invasion, Shinseki said that troop estimates were waaaay too low.

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski has written a series of articles about her time at the Pentagon with the neocons (she retired in disgust) and the neocons accused Zinni of being a TRAITOR because he said their plans were unrealistic.

I wish Zinni and Shinseki could get Perle alone in a room with a bagfull of the bones of American soldiers and beat the shit out of this chickenhawk war criminal.

hahaha. That explains a lot.

I guess for Republicans intellect = ruthlessness

http://www.wgoeshome.com

Bring back the guillotine?

What's not clear about that?