The resignation of Richard Perle as head of the Defense Policy Board is a major blow for the Chickenhawks, and their Clash of Civilizations war, which must be exploited to the fullest, to STOP THIS WAR!
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Perle's career started back in the 1970s, when he was a staffer on Sen. Henry Jackson's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, and began promoting Bernard Lewis and his Clash of Civilizations.
Already at that time, he had a reputation as a conduit of information to the Israelis, and a 1970 FBI wiretap overheard Perle discussing classified information with someone at the Israeli Embassy. He went on from there to be Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, where he came close to being prosecuted for the passing of classified documents to the Israelis.
Perle was a prime suspect for being part of the X Committee which collaborated with Jonathan Pollard, and he continued to play a role for the Jabotinskyites after leaving government, including being part of the producers of the "Clean Break" document in 1996.
As head of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board, he played a major role in bashing the resistance to the war in the uniformed military, and brought in that incompetent Laurent Murawiec, to push the Clean Break line.
Looked at in the historical perspective of the fight in the early 1930s, Perle, among others, has been acting like the inner circles around Adolf Hitler, which sat around planning the assassination of top German military officers who opposed, or might oppose, Hitler's insane wars of aggression.
Perle, Rumsfeld's leading advisor, was reported, back on August 1, 2002, to have chaired a July 10 Defense Policy Board meeting where the members ranted about the uniformed military opposition to the war, and insisted that "heads would have to roll" among the military brass, to break that resistance.
Well, now Perle's head has rolled instead.
But, look for the Chickenhawks to make new insane moves. They are going "ape-shit," and will begin to lash out at the military who are in increasingly open revolt against Rumsfeld.
WASHINGTON, DC, March 27 (EIRNS) -- PERLE IS THINKING ABOUT QUITTING THE DEFENSE POLICY BOARD, ANNOUNCED REPORTER SY HERSH THURSDAY AFTERNOON, at a Middle East forum opposing the Iraq war at Georgetown University.
Hours later it was officially announced, Perle had resigned as chairman of the Defense Policy Board -- and Rumsfeld accepted the resignation, but asked him to stay on as a member.
On March 17, Hersh's article ``Lunch with the Chairman,'' revealed the first piece of a corruption scandal about Perle's creation of ``Trireme,'' a company that profits off of wars, and security threats, especially following the 9/11 attacks.
On March 21, the cover story of {EIR} exposing both Perle,
and his godfather, Dick Cheney, called for Perle to be ousted --
as well as Cheney.In the last two weeks, other pieces of the file on Perle's alleged profiteering began to spill out in a tidal wave of investigation reports: a $725,000 payment from Global Crossing telecommunications giant; a private briefing to Goldman Sachs about the wars in Iraq AND North Korea, the defense contracts of a British firm, Autonomy.
[source: AFP 27 March 2003]
PERLE RESIGNS... NEXT COME THE SWINE. Richard Perle, the Utopian maniac who was chairman of the Defense Policy Board, resigned his position today, March 27.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has issued a brief statement making no mention of why Perle resigned. He wrote, "He has been an excellent chairman and has led the Defense Policy Board during an importnt time in our history. I should add that I have known Richard Perle for many years and know him to be a man of integrity and honor."
[Source: The New York Times, March 27]
"RICHARD PERLE'S JOB." Perle protests, in a letter to the editor of The New York Times appearing today, headlined, "Richard Perle's Job":
"You write (editorial March 24) that I have `signed on to represent a major telecommunications company that has a strong financial interest in lobbying the Defense Department' and that Global Crossing has retained me `to help persuade the Defense Department to drop its objections to a proposed sale to foreign buyers.'
"I have not been retained by Global Crossing to help persuade the Defense Department to drop its objections to a proposed sale.
"I was asked by Global Crossing to help the company understand the government's security concerns and to advise it how best to satisfy those concerns.
"The burden of my advice to Global Crossing has been to urge
it to meet the government's concerns and to help it structure safeguards to do that.
"At no time have I urged the Defense Department to drop its objections to a proposed sale. Richard Perle, Washington, March 24, 2003."
War Is A Racket
Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933 by: Major General Smedley Butler, former Commandant USMC
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6% over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100%. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps.
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscleman for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I suspected I was part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession,
I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street.
The record of racketeering is long.
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909 - 1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interest in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
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