You might want to do some research on Richard Perle's history as a member of Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson's staff in the 1970s, and as a Defense Department official for the Reagan administration in the 1980s. Alabama (Republican) Senator Jeremiah Denton, a retired Navy Admiral (and one of the most heavily-decorated military men in U.S. history) whose seven years as a POW in Vietnam are chronicled in his autobiography When Hell Was In Session, despised Perle -- and for good reason. I am not even worthy to tie Mr. Denton's shoes, but he and I have one thing in common that Mr. Perle cannot even claim . . . neither one of us has ever worked on the staff of a Democratic U.S. Senator.