Really and he goes on to wonder why a subpeona hasn’t been served.
Perle is a leading intellectual, and one of the main architects of the war to oust Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. And for the record, I agreed with him on that, and still do, and the only regret I have about it–aside from the American and Iraqi deaths–is that it wasn’t done sooner.
Perle also serves on the Defense Policy Board, a group that advises Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The members of the board receive top-secret information, they’re insiders and they’re in business, many of them, representing billions of dollars in defense-related industries, including homeland security.
In Chicago, if an alderman played those games he could get a subpoena. In Washington, though, the insiders write chin-stroking op-ed pieces and have fashionable brunches in horse country on weekends.
There are hundreds of thousands of American families that have sent loved ones to Iraq or Afghanistan, or to other dangerous places, where they risk their lives carrying out government policy. That anyone advising the president should be involved in an apparent conflict of interest, which is a polite way of saying war profiteering, is revolting.
I told you profiteering would be an election issue–Kass is a strong supporter of the President.
If the Clintons had played it this way, Republicans would shriek their outrage. Now, though, the Republicans are silent.
I saw Bush speak in Philadelphia three years ago. It looked as if he actually believed the words coming out of his mouth. And I could hear him plainly.
I didn’t even have to read his lips.