AUDIO: Richard Perle Insists That Saddam Had Ties To Al Qaeda Because He’s ‘Seen The Evidence’ »

[CatWoman]

I told you he had weapons of mass destruction!!!"


Yesterday, in an interview with NPR, Richard Perle, a prominent neoconservative and leading proponent for the war in Iraq, insisted that Saddam Hussein had ties to al Qaeda. He stated that anyone who believes otherwise is “simply wrong” because he’s “seen the evidence.”

But the report by the Senate Intelligence Committee in September concluded that there was no relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda:

Postwar findings indicate that Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qa’ida and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al Qa’ida to provide material or operational support. Debriefings of key leaders of the former Iraqi regime indicate that Saddam distrusted Islamic radicals in general, and al Qa’ida in particular… Debriefings also indicate that Saddam issued a general order that Iraq should not deal with al Qa’ida. No postwar information suggests that the Iraqi regime attempted to facilitate a relationship with bin Ladin. (p. 105)

Perle is no longer a government official. There’s no way he saw any intelligence that the Senate Intelligence Committee didn’t.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/13/perle-saddam-al-qaeda/

[misternormal]

1. Same Bat-shit, Same bat channel... time to give it up... n/t

[AtomicKitten]

2. We have seen the evidence that the PNAC boys are retarded

and have forever been silenced with the flop of their most cherished endeavor, Gulf War II.

[Kelly Rupert]

3. Was THE evidence proven by THE math?

[Buzz Clik]

4. He's been comparing notes with Santorum.

[H2O Man]

5. Perle is the devil.

I like the picture of Cheney. Where is Cad Bush?

[CatWoman]

6. that's not Cheney

that's Perle :hi:

[H2O Man]

8. I know

that it looks like him. But it acts like Cheney, who indeed wants to be the biggest person in the whole world. (Pay no attention to me.)

[CatWoman]

10. well, Chimpy got his

Cheney is sure to follow :)

[niallmac]

7. Perle can't tell us about the evidence because we

would just tell Sen. Jon Tester and he would go and blow it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrlmWXpNSw

[Kagemusha]

9. Oh, he means the evidence waterboarded out of that poor sop!

I heard about that. Some guy got waterboarded to tell the US what it wanted to hear. Perle thinks that in torture veritas, so it must be true.

[librechik]

11. Richard Perle, well-known LIAR and (neo)conman

has no credibility worth mentioning.

[aquart]

12. Can we make lying to the American people a death penalty crime?

Just for fun?

[Raster]

13. Perle, like the rest of the New American Century thugs has the credibility

of shit. Perle is a noted liar. The Prince of Fucking Darkness is doing anything he can to try and salvage his reputation and credibility. Plain and simple, Perle is a warmonger. He has tremendous private investments in oh, let's say MOST of the companies that should be investigated for war profiteering in Iraq.

As the veil is lifted and more and more of America and the world see just what a complete and total FUCKUP Iraq was from the beginning, we will see more of the collaborators and enablers rush to disclaim ownership of the Middle East mess they helped create.

[TexasLawyer]

14. Provence

Perle was interviewed by phone. NPR reached him at his chateau in Provence. Of course, Perle has plenty of money from selling out America.

Traitor.

LUNCH WITH THE CHAIRMAN
Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi?
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Issue of 2003-03-17
Posted 2003-03-10

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/030317fa_fact

[lapfog_1]

15. That's not Richard Perle.

That's Robert Novak, Douchebag of Liberty