Kurt Nimmo
Somebody dust off the guillotine
Mon Feb 23 13:52:16 2004
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Richard Perle, Executioner
by Kurt Nimmo
http://www.dissidentvoice.org
February 21, 2004

Native Americans had an expression for it.

Forked tongue.

Now we call them liars, backstabbers, dissimulators. People who say
one thing and do another. Cheats, double-dealers, hypocrites. Dirty
tricks and skullduggery.

For as Mark Twain once quiped, "A lie can travel half way around the
world while the truth is just putting on its shoes."

"I think, of course, heads should roll," yawped the Prince of
Dissimulation, Richard Perle. "When you discover that you have an
organization that doesn't get it right time after time, you change
the organization, including the people."

Richard is talking about the CIA, of course, and the bad intelligence
on those Iraqi WMD. It's all George Tenet's fault.

"The CIA has an almost perfect record of getting it wrong in relation
to the (Persian) Gulf going back to the Shah of Iran," said
Perle. "I'd start with the head head."

Somebody dust off the guillotine. Richard is in the mood for blood.
Cast the head head on a tumbrel and drive him through the streets of
Washington to the guillotine and off with his head!

Richard Perle is our Charles-Louis Sanson, the official executioner
of the French Revolution. Execution, lies, and deceitfulness are easy
for the Prince of Darkness.

But wait a minute. Something's wrong here.

As I recall the CIA was dissing Perle and Cheney and the Neocon Gang
that Can't Shoot Straight for their spurious intelligence, most of it
coming from Feith's Operation of Special Plans.

Cheney and Scooter Libby paid numerous visits to the CIA and put the
thumbscrews to them. "They were the browbeaters," a former defense
intelligence told the Washington Post. "In interagency meetings,
Wolfowitz treated the analysts' work with contempt."

Wolfie treated reality with contempt because it didn't jive with his
game plan, that is the US and Israeli strategy to rule supreme in the
Middle East, steal all the oil, and dictate to the Arabs.

Instead of hard evidence, Perle and gang relied on the preposterous
fantasies of so-called Iraqi dissidents and the nutcake Laurie
Mylroie, adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, the
preeminent hatchery of ding-a-ling neocon theory.

"In what amounts to the discovery of a unified field theory of
terrorism, Mylroie believes that Saddam was not only behind the '93
Trade Center attack, but also every anti-American terrorist incident
of the past decade, from the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania to the leveling of the federal building in Oklahoma City to
September 11 itself. She is, in short, a crackpot," writes Peter
Bergen.

In the Bush White House and Pentagon, crackpots run roughshod.

Oh, and Saddam was behind the anthrax letters, too. Even though the
anthrax mailed to two leading Senate Democrats, in October 2001, is
biologically identical to bacteria secretly manufactured at the Fort
Detrick, Maryland, warfare facility.

So mesmerizing are neocon lies that a large number of Americans
believe Saddam is Osama and this amalgamative personality is
responsible for the horrors of 9/11.

Remember Perle's claim that one of Saddam's henchmen, Ahmed Khalil
Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, met with alleged 9/11 "mastermind" Mohamed Atta
in Prague? Neocon helpmate and right-wing crank William Safire
reported this stinker. For some reason the New York Times allowed
Perle the Fabulist to publish an op-ed piece claiming this screwy
conspiracy theory as fact.

Of course, soon thereafter, the Old Gray Lady looked completely
foolish and printed a reversal. It's not the first time the Times has
been flimflammed by reactionary nutbars.

David Ignatius of the Washington Post wrote that the evidence for the
meeting was slim to none. Even the Czechs backed away from Perle's
fairy tale.

Safire went into bongo mode and screamed "gullible commentators" were
duped by perfidious Europeans, probably all of them cowardly French
pantywaists.

Perle says the CIA gave Dubya bogus intelligence, when in fact the
CIA was telling the Bushites their OSP intelligence linking Saddam
and al-Qaeda was gibberish.

"There isn't a factual basis for such assertions," declared a CIA
official after Powell trotted out his dog-and-pony show at the United
Nations. During his performance, Powell waved around a vial of
anthrax for effect. As it turns out, that anthrax was counterfeit --
the same way Bush's whole case against Saddam is counterfeit, a huge
and cynical sham contrived by Perle and the Straussian mob.

But it was David Kay, CIA weapons inspector, who really blew Dub's
boat out of the water. "I don't think [Saddam's WMD] existed... I
don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s,"
he told Reuters January 24.

Throw Kay in the tumbrel with the head head, off with all their heads!

Instead, it should be Perle and the neocons confronting the
guillotine of public censure for their premeditated lies and
calculated dishonesty resulting in the murder of more than 10,000
innocent Iraqi civilians.

Last July Richard the Maligner admitted he has no idea where Saddam
stashed his WMD, although since the neocons have said they are in
Syria, an outrageous claim minus evidence.

"We don't know where to look for them and we never did know where to
look for them," Perle acquiesced.

Recall Donnie "Bunker Buster" Rumsfeld declaring he knew where
Saddam's WMD were and he would grab them. Rumsfeld, of course, knew
nothing – it was all a pack of monstrous and murderous lies.

According to Perle, it may take 200 years or more to find Saddam's
illusive WMD, so we best keep the indefatigable Straussian neocons on
the case.

Remember: Bush said the war on terror will last generations, eight or
more generations if we are to believe the Prince of Darkness.

Naturally, after Iraq's oil is gone, there will be no need to look
for WMD, just as there is no reason to look for WMD in the Sahara
Desert. WMD are only a threat in countries chock-full of natural
resources. Or in countries selling missile technology to oil-rich
countries that are thorns in Israel's side, viz. North Korea.

In the meantime, however, while there's still a few billion barrels
of oil under the ground in Iraq, the WMD nobody can find remain a
threat. I mean, you never know, a bouquet of nukes may turn up (in
five minutes or 199 years) concealed beneath a palm grove or
squirreled away in Syria.

"It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam does acquire the
capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as he is almost
certain to do if we continue along the present course, the safety of
American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel
and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the
world's supply of oil will all be put at hazard," said Perle and the
neocon gaggle in a rare moment of honesty on January 26, 1998, in a
letter to Clinton, well before Dubya was enthroned.

Clinton believed the neocons nutcakes, so he ignored them. Clinton
was hardly averse to telling lies, but compared to the neocons he's a
rank amateur.

Perle may attempt to slough off his numerous lies on the CIA. But
eventually it will turn around and bite him and his boss squarely in
the ass.

Recall the CIA's expertise in fixing elections and instigating coups.
Or at least making things uncomfortable for people they don't like.

But this may not be necessary due to neocon flubbing and the
pathological inability to not tell big whopper lies. It now appears
the media considers them fair game as Bush meanders toward the
election.

However, the more desperate the neocons become, the more dangerous
and wigged out they are.

No way are they going down in November, not after four years of hard
work on the Greater Israel and Big Oil scheme, a plan more than a
decade in the making.

Look forward to an October surprise.

Kurt Nimmo is a photographer, multimedia artist and writer living in
New Mexico. He is author of Another Day in the Empire: Life in
Neoconservative America (Dandelion Books, 2003). To see his photo
work and read more of his essays, visit his excellent "Another Day in
the Empire" weblog.
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by Jim Lobe

For those still puzzling over the whys and wherefores of Washington's invasion of Iraq 11 months ago, major new, but curiously unnoticed, clues were offered this week by two central players in the events leading up to the war. Both clues tend to confirm growing suspicions that the Bush administration's drive to war in Iraq had very little, if anything, to do with the dangers posed by Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or his alleged ties to terrorist groups like al-Qaeda – the two main reasons the U.S. Congress and public were given for the invasion. . . (full article)
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb04/Lobe0221.htm