[DTA]

>>>>>>Good analysis (considering Perle is a Council on Foreign Relations globalist).<<<<

According to CIA factbook, Iraq has 437,072 sq km, France has 545,630 sq km and Portugal has 91,951 sq km.

Yet, Mr. Perle states that "It was never the role of the inspectors to scour the country looking for hidden weapons. They had no capacity to do that. They were a hundred in a country the size of France and Portugal put together and Hans Blix understood that perfectly well."

Europeans will be rolling on the floor laughing. For German or French reader, Perle destroyed his own credibility.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I doubt anyone in the halls of our enemies are rolling on the floor laughing or laughing at all. They are too busy cleaning out their pants and trying to figure out how to get out of their QUAGMIRE of ignorance.

It is unlikely the French or German knows those irrelevent mistakes anyway and even if they do they will not have anywhere near as much glee in the error as you.

[Terpfen]

"Europeans will be rolling on the floor laughing. For German or French reader, Perle destroyed his own credibility."

Destroyed credibility over a geography screw-up? That's usually what we call a "stretch." Bush has misspoken far more... extensively, I guess you could say, and yet he holds far more credibility than Chirac or Schroeder. Why would Perle lose credibility over his mistake of adding instead of subtracting?

[js1138]

According to CIA factbook, Iraq has 437,072 sq km, France has 545,630 sq km and Portugal has 91,951 sq km.

This would be a bad mistake in a published paper, but as presented in an unscripted interview, it's a trivial error. Perhaps he meant Spain and Portugal.