Richard Perle: "There is no such thing as a neoconservative foreign policy"

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/19/AR2009021903332.html?nav=emailpage

Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence
By Dana Milbank
Friday, February 20, 2009; Page A03


Listening to neoconservative mastermind Richard Perle at the Nixon Center yesterday, there was a sense of falling down the rabbit hole.

In real life, Perle was the ideological architect of the Iraq war and of the Bush doctrine of preemptive attack. But at yesterday's forum of foreign policy intellectuals, he created a fantastic world in which:

1. Perle is not a neoconservative.

2. Neoconservatives do not exist.

3. Even if neoconservatives did exist, they certainly couldn't be blamed for the disasters of the past eight years.

"There is no such thing as a neoconservative foreign policy," Perle informed the gathering, hosted by National Interest magazine. "It is a left critique of what is believed by the commentator to be a right-wing policy."

So what about the 1996 report he co-authored that is widely seen as the cornerstone of neoconservative foreign policy? "My name was on it because I signed up for the study group," Perle explained. "I didn't approve it. I didn't read it."

Mm-hmm. And the two letters to the president, signed by Perle, giving a "moral" basis to Middle East policy and demanding military means to remove Saddam Hussein? "I don't have the letters in front of me," Perle replied.

[Mari333]

1. yes, and Im the Queen of England. nt

[spanone]

2. dear richard perle, history is not yours to fuck with.

[mmonk]

3. LOL

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

4. At what point can I just yell "liar!" and point at him accusingly?

[fascisthunter]

5. you name will live in infamy as a dickhead lying neo-con

enjoy

[mod mom]

6. Isn't it prosecution time yet?

[tridim]

7. And the Holocaust never happened either, eh Dick?

[bdamomma]

8. they never stop LYING.

boy he has a very short memory doesn't he? oh boy, let's keep them running and lying? pathetic POS they are.

http://www.resisttyranny.com/pnac/web.archive.org/web/20070302123949/www.newamericancentury.org/index.htm

[burythehatchet]

10. never n/t

[wtmusic]

9. His necktie was feeling a little tight. nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. The GOP is desperately waiting for Bobby Ewing to step out of the shower.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Once a lying POS, always a lying POS.

[guruoo]

13. "If we just let our vision of the world go forth, ... just wage a total war,..."

'nuff said.

"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely,
and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war,
our children will sing great songs about us years from now." -Richard Perle

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/richard_perle.html

[Senator]

14. Uh Huh, And Some Other Perle Sabotaged Camp David 2000

In order to preserve his feeble candidate's ability to steal the election, then http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Senator/4">engage in megalomaniacal notions of final war as a substitute for final peace accords.

He may really be terrified that someone's gonna bother to drag his sorry, arrogant ass off to The Hague.

Good.

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[Canuckistanian]

15. "you didn't see anything" (waves arms)

[Senator]

16. Rachel Maddow Show: Neocons Revisionist History

Maddow and Isikoff spinning their conspiracy theory from a month ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VhDZrJIZeU

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