Key Pentagon Advisor Richard Perle Resigns Post as Head of Defense Policy

[Seldona]

Key Pentagon Advisor Richard Perle Resigns Post as Head of Defense Policy Panel


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A Defense Department adviser who is considered a major force behind the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq has resigned from a Pentagon board he had served on for 17 years. Richard Perle announced his resignation in New York.
Mr. Perle says he quit the Defense Policy Board to avoid becoming a burden to the Bush administration during an election year.

He says U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld turned the Pentagon's advisory board into a high profile institution. As a result, the Bush administration is being asked publicly to support or disassociate itself from Mr. Perle's hard-line statements.

Mr. Perle made his remarks at a news conference in New York, but he submitted his resignation to Mr. Rumsfeld last week. "We are going into an election campaign and, as you will have noticed, I have said several things this morning that would not please the Administration," he said. "So I did not want to put them in a position that they felt they had to respond to the things I said by virtue of my membership on the Defense Policy Board."

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[htuttle]

1. I thought he stepped down as 'chairman' last year

...and just recently quite the entire board.

Okay...it's not my imagination. Here's a link from Defenselink back in March 2003 stating that he stepped down as Chairman of that board back then:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/b03272003_bt164-03.html

Apparently, the DoD just let slip with this new announcement that they still considered him the 'Head' of the DPB all this time, even though he was no longer chairman?

[Seldona]

3. Odd.

Apparantly you are right.

The timing is right for the fall guy scenerio though, at least as far as the announcement.

But I have to admit, this was the first I had heard of it.

[loudnclear]

5. He's not even a "fall guy" but he is a huge campaign liability

This way it can be said the he no longer "advises on military policies."
But in fact, from the way the Iraqi invasion went down and from what he said today at the Heritage Foundation (you must read or hear it to believe how 'chilling' his remarks were) there will be more pre-emptive invasions and strikes by the US.

[Zan_of_Texas]

4. True

Under public pressure about some of his conflicts of interest, he stepped down as head a while back. But remained on the board.

Now, he's stepped down from the board.

Maybe the book he's just put out has made things a bit too hot to handle?

Maybe the entire neocon disaster of Iraq needs a bit of a, um, separation during the campaign?

Everything he touches seems to turn to sh*t.

[loudnclear]

2. This is one of the world's biggest "terrorists" He's giving Bush some

cover by stepping down but he will still be influencing and maybe even controlling our military policies...he is a very, very dangerous individual. Please listen or read his discussion at the Heritage Foundation today. BE VERY AFRAID!!