Washington Post Editorial Board, Richard Perle Collude To Spin Pre-War Iraq Record

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/washpost-richard-perle/

Washington Post Editorial Board, Richard Perle Collude To Spin Pre-War Iraq Record

Today, the Washington Post editorial board gave Iraq war architect Richard Perle a platform to offer a pathetic self-defense against the proof that he was focused on Iraq shortly after 9/11.

Perle responds to criticisms delivered by George Tenet — and reported by ThinkProgress — that he made public statements shortly after 9/11 advocating action against Iraq. Perle writes:

On “Meet the Press” last Sunday, Tenet argued that his version “seems to be corroborated” by a comment I made to columnist Robert D. Novak on Sept. 17 and a letter to President Bush that I signed, with 40 others, on Sept. 20. But my 10-word comment to Novak made no claim that Iraq was responsible for Sept. 11. Neither did the letter to the president, which said that “any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power.”

Tenet insists on equating two statements that are not at all the same: that Iraq was responsible for Sept. 11 — which I never said — and that removing Saddam Hussein before he could share chemical, biological or nuclear weapons with terrorists had become an urgent matter, which I did say.

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1. Perle's "How The CIA Failed America" is out-and-out sickening. He's a piece of shit.

And needs to be in prison.

[Rageneau]

2. Why don't we refer to the WP as "Washington Post (R-DC)"?