Irrelevant to the discussion. What is relevant is the fact Perle was pushing for the war in Iraq, and now is oddly off the reservation. That's not even insider information, nor is it kook conspiracy nonsense, one doesn't need to Google 'Perle' for that sort of information.
With all due respect, not everyone has heard of Richard Perle so I was just giving a friendly tip. And like you say, he is now "oddly off the reservation". The guy has suddenly 'disappeared'.
But what kind of bugs me now about Perle's .. ah... 'absence' and Kristol (of course I don't like him anyway) is that with their new 'stance' they give ammo to the anti-semites who'll say (again) we only toppled Saddam for "the jooooooos". But I don't care IF we DID it for "the jooooos", Saddam was a threat to us and our families, if Israel benefited so be it. Hell the whole world benefited - except the French, China and the Ruskies taking bribes.
OFF TOPIC,
How's the weather in Big Sky Country? I'm hoping (dreaming) to move to Montana 'some day'. From what I've seen your weather seems better there on average than where I'm at in the Chicago burbs. Milder winters and NO humidity in summer.