Richard Perle has resigned from the "Defense Policy Board"

MSNBC | 3/27/03

[Dane]

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[Dane]

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[EternalVigilance]

Why?

[Semper911]

He must have a new position lined up. Expect an announcement on that soon.

[Keith in Iowa]

Why should we care????

[Maedhros]

Perle apparently was a major player in the hawk camp.

[MEG33]

They got him.(he received no salary)

[Dane]

Carl Rochelle on MSNBC is basically stating that they don't why.

[My2Cents]

Perle apparently was a major player in the hawk camp.

He still is.

[Semper911]

Why should we care?

Because he has had a huge role in crafting defense policy. He is a major source of the brains behind this operation, from the big picture point of view.

Trust me, he has a new job.

[Dog]

Who got him??

[Maedhros]

The so-called "Richard Perle War Party":

Buchanan Charges Neocons With 'Warmongering'

[Timesink]

Why should we care????

Because, for some bizarre reason, he is probably the single most hated person in the entire current US government by the psychotic left. The DUh crowd will be crowing about this as some sort of "victory," even though it probably means nothing.

Not that we really need to care about that, either, but it will be annoying to listen to for a day or so until they realize that, once again, nobody else on earth gives a damn about their wacky conspiracy theories.

[swheats]

Speculation, but this could be a part of it. Richard Perle's Conflict

[Diddle E. Squat]

I dunno, I could be all wet, but off the cuff it remind me of the canning of that SEC guy. Looks like Bush fired him.

[optik_b]

I think he's under investigation for potential conflicts of interest for his ties to Global Crossing, a company that has major Chinese/Hong Kong investor.

[VRWC_minion]

As far as this war on terrorism, if you were designing it or advising the administration, would you do it differently? Is the war somewhat flawed at this point?

Well, we're conducting this war now in phases. Always bet on phase one, because phase one always happens. Phase two sometimes happens and sometimes it doesn't. I would have gone about this differently. I would have gone after Iraq immediately. I would not have relegated it to some subsequent phase. But it's all right, as long as we get to phase two. Phase two should be overwhelming support for the Iraqi opposition. They're eager, they're ready to go. I believe they can do it. We haven't done that until now, and the State Department opposes doing it.

[This should be] coupled with plans that could involve the direct application of American military power in support of the Iraqi opposition. Bombing targets in Iraq without any connection to a strategy seems to me unwise and ineffective. ...

I think the regime of Saddam Hussein is far weaker than most people believe, and what it would take to topple it is a tiny fraction of what was necessary to expel Iraq from Kuwait in 1991.

[MEG33]

The commentators talking about conflict after he started to work for Global Crossing to help them sell to the (Chinese)? ,make it palatable to those who say its a security risk.(memory may have lapses,here)

[arasina]

Global Crossing? Isn't that the telecom company that DNC quack Terry McAuliff made a bundle from before it went bankrupt?

[aristeides]

Perle's reaction to Sy Hersh's article about him in the New Yorker was really over the top. I strongly suspected from Perle's overreaction that there had to be something to the charges. It appears that there was.

[swheats]

I believe so. He and Hillary will have to tell us their secrets on investing.