[FreeReign]

Retired Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, whose seven years as a POW in Vietnam are chronicled in his famous autobiography, When Hell was in Session, despised Perle...

I wasn't defending Perle and his lobbying controversies. I was criticizing your seeming effort to discredit this administration's foreign policy in the WOT and how it pertains to Iraq, based on the lobbying controversies of Perle.

Alberta's Child:I think this author has it all wrong. The so-called "neo-conservative" element of the Republican Party lost every shred of credibility over three defining events in the last 18 months: 1. Richard Perle's resignation as head of the Defense Policy Board...

The irony is, that the honorable Jeremiah Denton is a strong believer in the Bush foreign policy and the WOT and how it pertains to Iraq.

As I said, things really aren't that simple.

[Alberta's Child]

I'll bet Jeremiah Denton would vote for John Kerry before he ever joined Richard Gere in criticizing the Russian government for its crackdown on Chechen terrorists.

The issue isn't the war on terror -- it's the "war on terror" as defined by the so-called "neo-conservatives." People like Richard Perle and William Kristol can't even render a credible position on this matter, since they were both such ardent supporters of the Clinton administration when it sided with Islamic radicals in Kosovo against Slobodan Milosevic.