Perle Washes His Hands Of Iraq: I Was Not An ‘Architect Of That War,’ Neocons Had No Influence»

Perle Washes His Hands Of Iraq: I Was Not An ‘Architect Of That War,’ Neocons Had No Influence»


Over the past few weeks, many Bush administration officials have begun rewriting history in an effort to burnish President Bush’s legacy. Following suit, neoconservative war hawk Richard Perle has taken the opportunity to polish his own record during the Bush years — mainly on Iraq.

In the latest issue of The National Interest, Perle devotes 4,600 words — not to congratulate President Bush for invading Iraq — but to wipe his, and the whole neoconservative movement’s, hands clean of the whole affair. In the essay, he categorically denies that both he — and neoconservative ideology in general — had any influence on the Bush administration in its decision to go to war:



Perle is right. He strongly advocated publicly for the invasion of Iraq, especially after 9/11, even making claims that Saddam Hussein had links to Osama bin Laden (an assertion he later claimed he never said). But in fact, Perle had direct access to top administration officials during the run up to the war. Former CIA director George Tenet recalled that shortly after 9/11, Perle told him that “Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday, they bear responsibility.”

Moreover, the neoconservative influence on the Bush administration, particularly regarding Iraq, has been well documented. For Perle to claim otherwise is beyond absurd.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/perle-iraq-architect/

nuff said.

These guys are literally shitting themselves with the thought they may actually have a reckoning coming in the future.

I'm pretty sure I read the recipe that they've followed for this disaster, right on their website.

Trying to lie his way out of criminality. The Berlusconi thing must be giving them the heebie jeebies. Bolton and Yoo have been trying to make their case. Waiting for the comb licker to make his now.

I think they enjoy hearing lies tumble out of their mouths.

Hey, if Karl Rove could blame the Iraq war on the Democrats, then PNACy Pearle can
allege that he never wanted the war in the first place.

Why not?

I'm looking forward to Wolfowitz's press tour, in which he launches a book of anti-war haikus
and camp songs.

supporting the war. I guess the rest of us were hallucinating, so we're the liars. If blubberfuck says it enough, it'll become true,
because his friends own the media.