Richard N. Perle did not offer any apologies. (File Photo)
Richard N. Perle did not offer any apologies. (File Photo)
I didn't even have to look at the byline to know that this was a Dana Milbank hit piece.
The WMDs were there. That's an indisputable fact (except to raving moon-bats). The problem is finding which sand hole in Syria they were stashed.
Ahmed Chalabi is Perle's protege----an individual who proved to be detrimental to President Bush.
Mr Bush let Chalabi hang, and there was a very good reason for it. As an authentic conservative, President Bush values loyalty above all else----as do all real conservatives.
"Uriah Heep" Chalabi was running the classic "Intelligence For Sale" scam. Every con artist and their cousin came crawling out of the woodwork to cash in. Chalabi was extorting $340,000 per month (that's per month) from US taxpayers.
Let's not ever forget the reasons why President Bush let Chalabi hang.
Charles Dickens' Uriah Heep character was notorious for wielding undue influence, a bounder who was always planning and plotting, ingratiating himself into the confidence of others. Uriah Heep was obsequious, manipulative, and wormed his way into positions of influence. Uriah was a consummate con man, and not to be trusted. Translated into the language of the popular culture, the Uriah Heeps would position themselves as amenable to conservatives but are insincere in these feelings, using conservatives only to advance their own agendas and ambitions.)
Chalabi, a long-time Iraqi exile, initially based himself in London, was mentored by Richard Perle, a neo-conservative embedded in the US government. The US paid Chalabi and his Iraq National Congress (INC) some $92 million dollars (plus all they could stash offshore).
Chalabi's INC facilitated the effort to feed bogus intelligence to the Pentagon and the CIA, aided and abetted by neocons in the US government. After the US invaded Iraq, our military could not even find the alleged agent network Chalabi said he ran. Chalabi's explanation? "They are in hiding".........What a crock.
Chalabi is part and parcel of the Mideast cesspool's ruling class---Socialistic Darwinists---survival of the fittest with the strong devouring the weak----Chalabi is a master at it. Moreover, Chalabi is a master swindler. He was convicted in absentia of incredibly vile criminal charges that were formally filed by Jordan.
Let those who value loyalty to GWB---who are authentic conservatives (not conservatives of convenience with agendas) stand with President Bush.
For the life of me, I don't understand why Perle even bothers showing his face in public anymore. I recognized this flaming @sshole as a fraud before the war in Iraq even began, so I feel just a bit more vindication every time he opens his mouth in public.
The Senate's investigation found that the CIA in particular was portraying its conclusions as rock-solid when they were, in fact, paper-thin (couldn't work scissors in).
The recently completed report by the Presidential Commision found the same thing. There were (quite reasonable) assumptions made about Saddam. These were then elevated to the stature of proven facts.
Administration officials rely on the products of the intelligence community. These products were wrong, and more importantly, lacked the appropriate caveats. Perle was as much a victim of faulty intelligence as the Congressman. Why should he apologize?
Saddam was pointing a gun at us. Only he and a couple of key advisors knew it wasn't loaded. In fact, he went out of his way to convince the world it was loaded. Saddam and his loyalists are responsible for the deaths of our servicemen & women.
