He did, after all, start two senseless foreign wars --- correction: Like many in the neoconservative movement, Richard "The Prince of Darkness" Perle had long been an advocate of regime change in Iraq. In 1998 Perle led an effort known as the Project for the New American Century with close neoconservative allies Wolfowitz, Woolsey, Elliott Abrams, and John Bolton. The Project culminated in a letter sent to US President Bill Clinton calling for the military overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime.
The Senate Intelligence Committee eventually discovered that President Bush and his advisers heavily exaggerated the claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and terrorist ties to Al Qaeda which were not validated by U.S intelligence units. Since this scandal, Perle has made several attempts to reduce his alleged involvement in the war efforts stating: “Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened…” In an interview he gave Vanity Fair that was excerpted in an article appearing in the 4 November 2006 Los Angeles Times, he denied having a role in the planning of the war. He is reported to have told Vanity Fair, "I'm getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war." A Los Angeles Times article reports that Perle now believes that his advocacy of the Iraq war was wrong. Perle expressed regret of his support of the invasion and faulted the "dysfunction" in the Bush administration for the troubled occupation. "I think now I probably would have said, 'Let's consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists'. 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." It is hard to imagine the decision to invade Iraq without the vast influence of Richard Perle and other neoconservatives. Nonetheless, despite Perle’s involvement, he was able to skirt both career and reputational damage. In 2004, when Bush II was reelected many of Perle’s close neoconservative associates were promoted to “unprecedented” positions within the U.S government. On Nov 14, 2:51 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Why Didn't Anyone Call for Secession When Bush Was Reelected?Posted > byLaurence Vanceon November 14, 2012 12:41 PM > I agree with Ryan. Why didn't anyone call for secession when Bush was > reelected? He did, after all, start two senseless foreign wars, double the > national debt, create the TSA and Homeland Security, spy on Americans, > expand Medicare beyond what LBJ would ever have dreamed of doing, and sign > into law bailouts, the light bulb ban, and billions and billions in > unconstitutional spending. Every bad policy of Obama and the Democrats has > its roots in Bush and the Republicans. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
