Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence

[babylonsister]

Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence


Former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle: Neocons don't exist. How about the Prince of Darkness, though? (By Lefteris Pitarakis -- Associated Press)

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.

Right. And the Bush administration National Security Strategy, enshrining the neoconservative themes of preemptive war and using American power to spread freedom? "I don't know whether President Bush ever read any of those statements," Perle maintained. "My guess is he didn't."

more...

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

[ixion]

1. nice try, PoD... but no soup for you

neocons are very well documented, and were proud of the moniker in their heady days at the turn of the millennium.

Oh, and the days of "creating the reality" that the rest of us must accept are over.

My hope is that Perle, and all the other neocon fascist bastards, rot forever in the Hague.

[The_Commonist]

2. You know, I almost forgot about Richard Perle...

Almost.

One of the slimiest of the slimy, he is one of the few people on the planet for whom I truly do wish there is a hell where he can spend eternity.

[peekaloo]

3. Perle harbors delusions.

lying sack o' excrement.

[sufrommich]

4. So in 1993 his name appears on a freaky neocon foreign policy

report and he waits until 2009 to tell us he didn't really write it? Right.

[Gman]

5. Perle just might be correct that Bush didn't read those statements

we all know he wouldn't/couldn't read.

[tanyev]

6. Any verified stories out there of him asking for his name to be removed

from the report he didn't read and didn't approve?


*crickets*

[babylonsister]

7. p.m. kick. KO just covered this. Ah, denial is a wunnerful thing. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. "I know nothing!" - Sgt Schulz from"Hogan's Heroes"