Perle badmouthing occupation of Iraq

[BurtWorm]

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http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html



Perle: Occupation "grave error"
Now that he's stepped down from the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle is badmouthing the consequences of the war he helped design, the Toronto Star reports.

"Richard Perle, until recently a powerful adviser to U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, described U.S. policy in post-war Iraq as a failure. 'I would be the first to acknowledge we allowed the liberation (of Iraq) to subside into an occupation. And I think that was a grave error, and in some ways a continuing error,' said Perle, former chair of the influential Defence Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon. With violent resistance to the U.S.-led occupation showing no signs of ending, Perle said the biggest mistake in post-war policy 'was the failure to turn Iraq back to the Iraqis more or less immediately.'"

"'We didn't have to find ourselves in the role of occupier. We could have made the transition that is going to be made at the end of June more or less immediately,' he told BBC radio, referring to the U.S. and British plan to transfer political authority in Iraq to an interim government on June 30. This public criticism of U.S. policy from one of the leading advocates of the war — and a firm political ally of U.S. President George W. Bush — indicates just how much Bush's political fortunes are being damaged by post-war chaos."

[ewagner]

1. Huh?

Wasn't this the same guy who said (about the war) "Our children will sing great songs about us."?

this derserves a heart-felt :wtf:

[Birthmark]

2. Ouch! That's gotta hurt in the White House.

Bet they had to jump start Cheyney's pacemaker when he saw that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Can't see where yer going when you backpeddle.

Hope he runs into a wall.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. How quickly they abandon the bastard child

...both the war and the coke head.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. He's just angry that recent revelations have interfered with his war

profiteering...something he and Chalabi had worked out in advance

[Alerter_]

21. he's just upset Chalabi double-crossed him and got the better deal

maybe this Chalabi fellow really took them all for a ride?

[BurtWorm]

6. Funny how he always spills his guts to the British.

:eyes:

[gasperc]

7. this nut wants to invade IRAN and FRANCE

check out his book cover, yikes to what else he writes!

[JHB]

8. "I turn a little sidestep..."

Thank you Mr. 20/20 Hindsight. SOME of us figured that out BEFORE the war, but you and your ilk couldn't be bothered to listen.

This administration has unequivocably revealed any number of policy hucksters that need to be completely blacklisted from American politics, and right at the top is Squirrley Perley himself.

[wtmusic]

9. And let Saddam return to power?

This is an idiotic POV, not that I expected anything better.

[swinney]

10. Perle--Is selling what to whom

He is alaways on take. Follow $$$$

[CJCRANE]

11. He's framing the argument,

making it seem as if the invasion was always about "liberation", and not about cememting US power and influence in the region (which is more likely what it was about).

[Kinkistyle]

12. WHAAAAAAAAAA???????

Get out of freaking town. We are talking about the third head in the Rummy, Wolfie, Perle Chimera of Evil. He must be trying to hitch a ride on the new "sane, peaceful" bandwagon before Fahrenheit 9-11 comes out so he can cash in.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. He's shocked that what the Iraqis are throwing ain't flowers.

He and the rest of the "great minds" infesting the WH were expecting hordes of joyful Iraqis dancing in the streets, presenting the GIs with containers of oil, naming their kids Dumbernya, and donating to televangelists.


Those durn Ay-rabs just don't understand that we're there to help them when we shoot and bomb the citezenry, torture the "detainees", insult their women, and shoot up their mosques.

Guess we'll just have to nuke them into gratitude.

[amber dog democrat]

14. More squeaks from the rats abandoning ship.

< "Bush's political fortunes are being damaged by post-war chaos." >
And they helped create this mess. But now more of Bushes former supporters are disclaiming responsiblity? I really wonder who was and is calling the shots?
It could NOT have been Chimpie, could it ? could it?

Perle would not bail if this policy had been successful. Too bad if the buck just stops at the Patsy in Chief - and not his arrogant fools who led him into it.
I see a potential Nurenburg style trial here.

[iorg]

15. Just as much

Their troops were no longer welcome in Saudi Arabia. They have to be somewhere, pretty sure a pullout of Iraq would coincide with massive troop realignment to Afghanistan with a guard every 100meters along the pipeline

[carolinayellowdog]

16. Here's a link to the Toronto Star, no pass needed

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1085523609417&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724

also posted in Editorials

[BurtWorm]

17. Thank you.

I should have provided that link myself.

[Jose Diablo]

18. Squeek, squeek, squeek goes perle n/t

[oasis]

19. Bad pre-war intel on Iraq has sucked the air out of Perle's PNAC balloon.

His dream of a Pax Americana fades to black as the curtain rises on the UN.

[Octafish]

20. Picture of Dorian Perle.

Either that, or he's
Simon Bar Sinister III

[BurtWorm]

22. What the hell is that in his mouth?

It's either a bubble or sulfur from the pit of hell.

[Octafish]

23. It's where all neo-confederate scum go.

Well, with one exemption, uh, exception.

[HFishbine]

24. Did Perle step down?

"Now that he's stepped down from the Defense Policy Board..."

I'm aware that Perle relinquished his position as chair, but I thought he stayed on the board. Has he also now resigned from the board? When did that happen?

[bacchant]

25. Fall back! Regroup! Reinvent yourselves!

The neocons are parasites jumping off the back of their dying host. Perle will disassociate himself from his own policies to avoid becoming a pariah. He'll be back.