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So -- Richard Perle played a key role in
knocking down what was apparently a legitimate peace offer from Iraq, one which
was certainly in the interests of the United States, the West and the
world.
Why did Perle do this? To pursue a
strategy on behalf on Israeli interests, as defined by Likud, which he had
helped design years before in the Clean Break paper for
Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's Institute for
Advanced Strategic and Political Studies.
The American major media, once again, have
backed away from looking at the Israeli angle on the Iraq War. As one
reason after another for the war goes up in smoke, including the oil rationale,
the big media scratch their heads and ask in a puzzled way, what could the real
reason have been? We're so baffled. We just can't figure it
out. The true cause will remain a mystery forever, like the identity of
the leakers in the Valerie Plame affair.
Perle's influence in this matter has cost
Americans at least $100 billion and their good relations with the rest of the
world, including their traditional allies. Perle and his neocon colleagues
have also greatly increased the risks of terrorism for Americans. And yet
the American big media continue to treat him respectfully.
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U.S. Advisor Says Iraq Peace Offer
Was a Trap
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A last minute peace deal offered by a top Iraqi official in the run up to the war that toppled Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was a trap designed to discredit U.S. policy, an advisor to the Pentagon (news - web sites) said on Sunday. Richard Perle, former chairman of the Defense Policy
Advisory Board who had met with a Lebanese businessman who conveyed the Iraqi
offer meant to prevent an invasion, said the offer had not been credible.
Perle told ABC television's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" that the
offer by former chief of intelligence, Gen. Tahir Habbush made through Imad
Hage, a prominent Lebanese-American businessman, was one of many approaches for
a last-minute peace deal.
"There were a number of governments that were trying to broker something with
the Iraqis," Perle said. "So this was not credible, this offline approach,
indirect as it was."
The Bush administration has been accused by Democrats of being overeager to
go to war with Iraq (news
- web
sites), ignoring possible diplomatic avenues to peace including that
conveyed through Perle and exaggerating the threat from Iraq.
The offer that came to Perle was to allow the United States to inspect for
weapons of mass destruction, which the Iraqis said they did not have, and to
turn over a top al Qaeda operative who was in Iraqi custody.
Perle said it also included oil concessions and he thought it was part of an
effort to use that offer to discredit U.S. intentions.
"This was a trap," Perle said. "I think it was clearly a trap. It was
intended to discredit the administration's policy, it was intended to discredit
our effort to liberate Iraq."
ABC News reported last week that Hage had met with Iraqi officials, including
Habbush, to discuss the peace offer. Hage had also met with Perle in London to
convey the information.
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