Only days before the 2006 elections and two main neocons, Richard Perle and Ken Adelman, jump shit. They can’t deny that they wanted this war and some even surmise they initiated it. Yet, it is almost as if they got together to come up with a strategy to divorce themselves from any responsibility and lay the full burden on the remaining Bush administration members. The mantra they decided on was “dysfunctional,” get used to this term since we will hear it frequently in the near future.
I can see the “think tank” pondering over this dilema at their round table and the collective sigh of relief when thier “mantra” stategy was conceived. Never mind they are stabbing their former colleagues in the back, they got what they wanted and the ends justify the means. Fully expect the “old media” to actually entertain this defense with thoughtful candid debate. (sigh)
“…..Perle is unrecognizable as the confident hawk who, as chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, had invited the exiled Iraqi dissident Ahmad Chalabi to its first meeting after 9/11. “The levels of brutality that we’ve seen are truly horrifying, and I have to say, I underestimated the depravity,” Perle says now, adding that total defeat—an American withdrawal that leaves Iraq as an anarchic “failed state”—is not yet inevitable but is becoming more likely. “And then,” says Perle, “you’ll get all the mayhem that the world is capable of creating.”
According to Perle, who left the Defense Policy Board in 2004, this unfolding catastrophe has a central cause: devastating dysfunction within the administration of President George W. Bush. Perle says, “The decisions did not get made that should have been. They didn’t get made in a timely fashion, and the differences were argued out endlessly.… At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible.… I don’t think he realized the extent of the opposition within his own administration, and the disloyalty.”
………and people had said, ‘Should we go into Iraq?,’ I think now I probably would have said, ‘No, let’s consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.’ …” full article:
David Corn launches his new “Can You Believe It TV” recounting his Fox News appearance with “The Prince of Darkness” Richard Perle. He states in this vlog that Perle “enlightened” him after the May 2002 “Fox News” show, regarding troop strength. Perle scoffed at Corn’s assertion of needing 100’s of thousands of soldiers, and asserted that 40,000 would easily suffice!
