Richard Perle Claims We’ve ‘Already Won’ The Iraq War But Its Also ‘Far From Over’ (huh?)

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Richard Perle Claims We’ve ‘Already Won’ The Iraq War But Its Also ‘Far From Over’

Exploring the question “Iraq: What if we win?” in the latest issue of The American Interest, neoconservative Iraq war architect Richard Perle offers a series of false, incoherent, contradictory and misleading statements in an effort to not only, again, distance himself from the disastrous Iraq war policy he helped create but also to tout the war’s successes.

In his article, which is headlined “We Won Years Ago,” Perle claims that the Iraq war — which he argues was “imposed on us” — is “far from over.” But later, he claims that “we have already won in Iraq”...http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/richard-perle-claims-weve-already-won-the-iraq-war-but-its-also-far-from-over/

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Huh? is right

Only a neo-conservative can make a self-contradictory remark like that and expect people to believe it.

[jimshoes]

2. I will listen to what he has to say

when he is properly referred to as defendant.

[Cleita]

3. Yes, up is down, black is white, left is right and

Saddam is Osama. That's why we killed him.

There was no war but an invasion that resulted in our toppling the Iraqi government. We won that if you want to loosely call it a war. It's the occupation that's far from over and doing very badly.