[Alberta's Child]

This issue is certainly worthy of discussion, and this is precisely why people like Richard Perle and Douglas Feith should never have been allowed to work for the Bush administration in the first place.

The objectivity of these two men was compromised from the first day they set foot in the Bush administration, in light of their call for a regime change in Iraq in 1996. Calling for a regime change itself wasn't the problem. The real concern was that they did so in a paper they presented to the Netanyahu government in Israel, entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Security the Realm." In case anyone still doesn't know this by now, the "realm" they were talking about was Israel, not the United States.

Perle's nebulous role as an "unpaid advisor" to the Bush administration on the Defense Policy Board has raised serious warning flags in my mind from the beginning, and I don't consider myself to be a raving lunatic of any kind, either. These concerns have been reinforced by the manner in which Perle quietly disappeared from the scene last year, once it became apparent that the President's silly show on the deck of the aircraft carrier last May wasn't the defining moment it was intended to be.

I certainly wasn't surprised to learn that Mr. Perle was working as a lobbyist for Global Crossing, lobbying on their behalf to get the U.S. government to approve the sale of some of the company's fiber-optic assets to a telecommunications giant in Red China.

Why the Bush administration insisted on having this bastard play any role whatsoever in this country's foreign policy decisions over the last few years is something I'll never understand.

[Shermy]

This issue is certainly worthy of discussion, and this is precisely why people like Richard Perle and Douglas Feith should never have been allowed to work for the Bush administration in the first place.

And their views differ much from Clinton, Gore, the ILA, etc. etc. pushing for the liberation of Iraq and getting our troops out of Saudi how?

And all the papers written on behalf of the Saudis, Kuwaitis, Kurds, even Iraqis to get rid of Saddam - should we attribute conspiracy to them?

[Coop]

Doesn't bother me in the least.

[justshutupandtakeit]

What a load of crap.

Apparently you are unaware that regime change in Iraq was the policy of the US Government since 1998 as articulated in an ACTUAL LAW.

Leftists hate men like Wolfowitz, Feith and Perle because of their brilliant development of an actionable policy after 8 yrs of flopping around. Thus, they must be defended against the attacks from the Evil Ones and the Ignorant.

You'll never understand because you apparent are gullible enough to swallow whatever crap the RATmedia and Bush haters are peddling.