[justshutupandtakeit]

Those who do not have America's best interests in mind are the opponents of President Bush who directly or indirectly support those attempting to undermine his efforts to make our nation secure and defeat its enemies. They certainly are NOT Perle and those others you attack without reason.

There was not a gram of "sentimentality" in my post regarding Washington and Hamilton. That was a dumb remark even for you.

Apparently your ignorance extends to the first Gulf War as well as current times. What a shock. Our troops were sent into Kuwait to REMOVE Saddam remember him not to change Kuwait's government? It would have been sooo much smarter to allow him to corner the market in oil and bring to fruition the weapons programs he was developing. Go back and hide under your bed this is obviously a world far too scary for you to play in.

Neither of your "points" has anything to do with anything. Washington would be highly pleased to see his country become the most successful and powerful in history as anyone who knows anything about him knows.

Israel is not a remnant of the British empire. While I am not inclined to explain ALL of history to you I will suggest you look up Ottoman Empire in an encyclopedia. If you have other questions I will try to help. Nor was Saudi Arabia, Iran or Turkey or Syria part of the British Empire. Iraq was a British concern (it became a Protectorate after WWI I believe) but never a colony or part of the Empire per se.

[Alberta's Child]

One very relevant point to this whole discussion is this:

Richard Perle resigned from his position as head of the Defense Policy Board soon after the war in Iraq began last March, when even his most ardent supporters realized that his blatant conflict of interest in the Global Crossing case was going to be an albatross around the neck of the Bush administration.

Perle remained on the Defense Policy Board as a member, and eventually resigned that post in February of this year. But not before uttering this quote for the ages after David Kay admitted that the intelligence community had clearly been incorrect about its characterization of the threat of WMDs in Iraq:

"I have always thought our intelligence in the Gulf has been woefully inadequate."

Now how's that for utter arrogance, and utter bullsh!t on the part of Perle. If what Perle said was true, then he was lying his @ss off during the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, when he and every other lackey in the Bush administration was running around claiming that our intelligence was accurate, and these WMDs posed an imminent threat to the U.S.

There's no question in my mind that the Bush administration is now looking at the CIA as the dupe in this whole affair -- to serve as the scapegoat for "inaccurate information" that led up to the war (the fact that nobody will pay a price for this "blunder" is a clear sign to me that this has been orchestrated from the start). In this respect, the "pre-war intelligence" fiasco will be forgotten just as quickly as we've forgotten about that disgraceful propaganda campaign before Gulf War I -- when those poor Kuwaiti women testified about all those alleged atrocities committed by Iraqi troops in Kuwait (their stories were fabricated, and it was later learned that these women were all family members of Kuwaiti embassy staff in Washington).