Perle runs to Prague to whine about Kerry

[BurtWorm]

According to the Dreyfuss Report at Tompaine.com

http://www.tompaine.com/blogs/

Perle Speaks


November 01, 2004
Richard Perle, the so-called “prince of darkness” and leader of the neoconservative national security team, hasn’t been much heard from lately.

So here’s a piece from the Prague Post—yes, that Prague, in the Czech republic—in which Perle speaks his pre-election mind. (Just in case you needed another reason to vote for Kerry.) In it, Perle says that a Kerry victory will be “a very great encouragement to the terrorists.”:




A defeat for George W. Bush in the race for the White House would spur on terrorists who have America in their sights, according to Richard Perle. A former Cold War hawk and until recently an adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Perle is not a man to mince his words. Or to hold back from voicing the kind of views that make left-wingers and opponents of war wince.

For instance, he believes a "surgical strike" against North Korea is one way of ensuring that it is not pursuing a nuclear-weapons program that is a threat to the United States.

"I think it will be dangerous for America" if Democratic contender John Kerry becomes president, said Perle, a leading light among a band of U.S. neoconservatives who are considered by some to have had a major role in shaping Bush's policies.

"I fear that if he were elected, without any scientific basis for it, people would say it that it was President Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq and the war on terror that led to his defeat," Perle said. "And if that becomes believed -- and it certainly doesn't have to be true to be believed, particularly in the Arab world -- I think this would be a very great encouragement to the terrorists."

[BurtWorm]

1. Link to the original article here

http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/8657

And a summary of Perle's "world view" according to the author's:

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO RICHARD PERLE

In the city Oct. 19-21 for a conference on energy and security, Perle told The Prague Post:

• An election defeat for George W. Bush would spur on terrorists

• A "surgical strike" against North Korea is one way of ensuring that country is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program

• Vaclav Havel is one of the very few great moral leaders of our time

• The left seems insensitive to the sadistic nature of Saddam Hussein's regime

• Holding on too long to the occupation in Iraq has been a mistake

[Tesibria]

2. His own people are the ones saying what he worries people will say

"I fear that if he were elected, without any scientific basis for it, people would say it that it was President Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq and the war on terror that led to his defeat," Perle said. "And if that becomes believed -- and it certainly doesn't have to be true to be believed, particularly in the Arab world -- I think this would be a very great encouragement to the terrorists."

Funny -- that is EXACTLY what the freepers are saying -- of course, without any basis in reality or fact.

[BurtWorm]

3. Why would the terrorists be encouraged if Americans reject Bush's WoT?

Bush has made terrorists superstars. Won't they miss the star treatment?

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. I think Wolfie has it ass back wards!

The chimp has been a great encouragement for terrorists and his re-sElection will be an even greater encouragement!

[Roland99]

5. Richard "Fake" Perle....*yawn*

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http://www.conjur.com/politics - Why George W. Bush is WRONG for America

[SeveneightyWhoa]

6. No, a great encouragement to the terrorists..

..would be a continuation of Perle's wacko neoconservative policies.

The guy's a nut, this just goes further to establish that fact.

[sendero]

7. I love it when...

... someone whose grand plans lie in ruins and they act like someone with a brain gives a fucking rat's ass what they think.

Guess what you pathetic ghoul. You failed, you are a failure, and your 15 minutes are over. Sit down and STFU.