Richard Perle On Hardball Says...

[ChiciB1]

It was Saddam's FAULT. He should have told us he didn't have WMD!!

The newest EXCUSE for the War!! Will they NEVER STOP!! And today Bush said he shouldn't have said "Wanted Dead or Alive" about bin Ladin???

Laura got mad at him???

And this is the best America had to offer???? Outta Here!

[Kikosexy2]

1. Boo...

F*#King Hoo! No it was Ronald Reagan's fault!

[Kahuna]

2. Saddam did tell us he didn't have them. He agreed to have the inspectors

in and cooperated with them. Another one of bushco's lies that will make it into the history books as fact. :puke:

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Didn't Sadamn tell us this REPETEATEDLY?q

Mass amnesia works for poor Richard though

[wryter2000]

7. He did

Remember the volumes of documents he sent and all the data CD's? The day after we got them, Bush claimed they were bogus. How did anyone have any time to even open them all?

[Botany]

13. 1997 Letter to President Clinton asking for the war.

Signed by guess who?

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

:kick:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

32. Francis Fukuyama?

[hector459]

35. Saddam told us the truth while Bush lied to us.

He said he had no WMDs, produced a 12,000-page report that said so which we disputed. Saddam told us he didn't have any WMDs and he also told us that our invading Iraq would lead to a blood bath and that we would see many US soldiers dying in the streets of Baghdad. I think an international court would release Saddam and put Bush in jail instead. The US administration committed gross war crimes and ought to be held accountable but they won't be. As for Richard Perle...he is PNAC slime.

[lovuian]

4. This is Bush's legacy He lied to go to War

Everybody told him but he declared War invaded a country and the rest of the world just sat back and watched!!!

[complain jane]

5. Perle said one minute that Saddam could have proven

he had no WMDs but when Tweety asked him if he would have been satisfied with that Perle says "Ah I was in favor of taking him down no matter what."

So that's nice, talk about setting a dangerous precedent. Or, dangerous president.

[AG78]

6. No

"Will they NEVER STOP!!"

They've been around a long time. There's no reason to think they won't be here in the future. We have people from Iran-Contra currently creating the same policy from 20 years ago in Washington, and even some new ones.

See you in Camp 6.

[against all enemies]

8. Bush lied; Saddam told the truth. Try to get a Puke to admit that.

[Sterling]

9. John Stewart joked the same thing last night.

He said it was Saddam's fault for not having those weapons.

[Orsino]

10. That was the excellent Stephen Colbert n/t

[pinto]

11. They are truly mind boggling. Absolutely, bonkers mind boggling...n/t

[Scooter24]

12. It's only a matter of time..

before it becomes Clinton's fault.

They are trying hard to salvage any respect left for their party before it crumbles.

[ChiciB1]

14. Keep Thinking

as I do. KARMA, KARMA, KARMA!

[julialnyc]

15. I thought we shouldn't listen to the words of a mad man

according to Bush

[Patsy Stone]

16. You mean this isn't Clinton's fault?

I thought everything was Clinton's fault. Wow, what an ass. But when you interview Richard Perle, that's what you get. :mad:

[LynnTheDem]

17. He told Rumsfeld...he told BUSH...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is lying when he denies having weapons of mass destruction and links to terrorist groups.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/iraq-030204-24183756.htm

"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021005.html

And BUSH AGAIN:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030208.html

[spanone]

18. What a slug.

[DulceDecorum]

19. What does Cheney say? Today, I mean?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

20. LOL... That was a joke on the Daily Show last night...

It's Saddam's fault for not having the WMD.

These people are so blind to reality, they don't even realize they are parroting their own satire.

Mondo stupido, Perle boy.

[poe]

22. lord of the flies

the strausscons aren't blind to reality they are creating it every day. drowning us all in their gravy spills. they also realize how damaged the American brain is (hope that's not to harsh but the evidence keeps coming at me) and are constantly in manipulation mode. these are pathological creatures; rumsfeld, wolfowitz, cheney, bolton hadley, perle, etc


it's lord of the flies at warp speed

[Stirk]

21. Remember when the Iraqi goverment offered all those documents,

attempting to "prove" that they did not have WMD? I remember the right-wing talking heads at the time said that the huge amount of documents proved that Iraq was hiding WMD.

They said it was an obvious attempt to stall for time by releasing too much information to review. Fools. Only fools could believe that garbage.

[ooglymoogly]

23. richard in the end admitted that it didn't make any diff what

saddam said; he wanted to go to war...so forgetaboutit

[pdxmom]

24. They've had so many stories

they can't remember what they've previously said. This just proves why you should never lie. And that your lies will catch up with you cause you can't keep them all straight.

Now, if people would just actually pay attention and THINK.

[barb162]

25. didn't Matthews say: BUT Saddam did tell us he had no WMD!

We need better interviewers in this country who can catch these easily trappable liars in the middle of their lies.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

26. And this is the best America had to offer???? Outta Here!

What a tangled web neocons weave, when they boldly seek to deceive.

Pathetic, truly pathetic. Some sorry ass excuses for leadership, just a bunch of criminals and thugs like the ones they are supposedly going after.... dumbasses.

[DemonFighterLives]

28. And what will it take us to get past this

Momentary lapse of reason. We need Perle outta there no matter what and all the rest of the gang.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

30. If America doesn't make an example of these guys and put them away

for life, perhaps do the Abu Ghraib thing on them for awhile... we will never get out from under the calamity that is heading our way. I say lock 'em up and throw away the key. They are war criminals pure and simple... I am sure no one in Europe would argue this point.

www.brusselstribunal.org

[killbotfactory]

27. We have some brilliant minds up at the top

Now that's sarcasm, baby!

[Disturbed]

29. Perle also said...

that the Iraq Invasion was illegal but the right thing to do.

Maybe it was?

John Kerry said he would have voted for the Iraq resolution even if he knew that there were no WMDs in Iraq.

[Desperadoe]

31. John Kerry said he would have voted for the Iraq resolution

And that is why he wasn't elected President.

[DemonFighterLives]

33. Iraq was only right from an oil grubbing standpoint

Nobody has considered alternatives or friendship with the suppliers. I quess I just feel the war was unnecessary/illegal in so many ways and I can't handle what has happened in our name.
:nuke:

[hatrack]

34. Funny story about Richard Perle

I'm wrapping up reading "Charlie Wilson's War", which is a journalistic history of the US covert support of the Afghans during the Russia occupation, and how Rep. Wilson (D-TX) was arguably the driving force behind US support.

Anyway, Perle was known even back then as a foam-flecked anti-Communist. But whatever his foam-flecked bona fides, he didn't have much even then to do with reality.

You see, Perle had this brainstorm. All we had to do was get the Russian soldiers in Afghanistan to defect to the Afghan guerillas, especially if we promised them a new life in America, and in no time at all, we'd have a "Free Russian" fighting force (modeled on Vlasov's army of anti-Stalin Russians who fought with the Wehrmacht in WWII) with which to fight back.

Just a few problems with this visionary scheme. For one thing, Russians who survived their capture (and there weren't many, given what the Russians & their Afghan allies did to large parts of the country), were often repeatedly raped by their captors. It was also common practice for Afghan guerillas to cut the arms and legs off of prisoners and dump them on roads just before a convoy came through, so that the Russians would be so pissed-off they'd immediately pursue, and end up in an ambush.

The only Russian prisoners the Muj produced were handed over at the specific request of the CIA. One was nearly catatonic from his experience, while the other quickly ended up in jail for robbing a 7-11 in suburban DC. So much for Vlasov's Army, v. 2.0, and interesting evidence that Perle was a clueless dickhead a full 20 years ago, which explains his remaining a clueless dickhead even today. :eyes:

[hector459]

36. What absolutely blows my mind about all this is that if this Iraq invasion

had been carried out by Clinton or a Dem successor, the nation would be in flames by now from the right wing blowback. I am certain that our own government would have tried Clinton for war crimes.