Well, we know that he read "three Shakespeares" last summer, but as for Hobbes, I suspect that he would picture one-half of a comic strip duo.

Come on. Conservatives are used to being treated rudely and shabbily and they know that their speech may be interrupted or worse at all sorts of places like college campuses or the 92nd Street Y, where the notion of "free speech" means "freedom to engage in radical leftist speech and to disrupt all other speech." Perle has seen all this before. No surprise.

What is much more interesting is to see the veneer of professionalism and objectivity stripped off of reporters and producers for such venerated institutions like PBS and the Washington Post. Let's face it. PBS, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post -- they, or at least a fair number of their reporters, hate the Bush Administration and it is high time that they confessed their bias. They can do what they like; agitate, advocate, articulate, whatever political position that they want to. It's a free country. Just don't hide behind some respectable cloak of professional journalism.

If Pearle and his co-horts possessed a little broader knowledge of the region and the people, they would have known that the Sunni's and the Shia's have had enmity towards one another since the year 632.

In addition, the oppression of the majority by the minority made for a powder keg once the iron rule of the dictator was removed.

All there is now, is seething hatred and revenge, and our troops are squarely in the middle.

It is an example of what can happen when there is uninformed decision making made by people with ulterior motives.

Perle wants war in Iraq? I'll buy him a ticket so he can go fight.

Oh yeah, the left has lot to learn from the right when it comes to "[taking] seriously the views of your fellow Americans." LOL

Perle should be in jail. One of the most amoral, cowardly, venal men in America. Won't even stand by his own policy.

In his article, 'The Empire Backfires" on the arrogant unilateralism of this administration, Jonathan Schell quotes the following from Perle'

"Richard Perle, who until recently served on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, seemed to speak for the Administration in an article he wrote for the Guardian the day after the Iraq war was launched. He wrote, "The chatterbox on the Hudson [sic] will continue to bleat. What will die is the fantasy of the UN as the foundation of a new world order. As we sift the debris, it will be important to preserve, the better to understand, the intellectual wreckage of the liberal conceit of safety through international law administered by international institutions."

This from a man backpedaling like crazy from his delusional fantasies.

Elephantman has, once and for all, blown the cover off liberal media bias. Of course, we who have been paying attention in recent years already are familiar with the many times our history has been affected by their bias. As when the U.S. media arrogantly refused to go along with impeachment, in order to protect a Democrat president; and when they did not want to accept the 2000 election results, because they all personally liked Al Gore so damned much; and when they refused to simply accept the claims about Iraq's WMD and links to al-Qaeda, even though a war would have been great for ratings; and when they refused to go 24/7 in trumpeting the claims of the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush (or as they so smugly put it, "until there was at least a shred of evidence"). Alas, the list goes on and on. It makes me sick, the left-wing bias of these insufferable "reporters" and "journalists".

As the saying goes, I know the U.S. media must have a liberal bias, because I hear people complaining about it every single time I turn on the TV or radio, and every time I open up a newspaper or magazine, etc.

On Monday, Carlotta Gall blew the cover off the ISI support for the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan.

Not only did Perle and his buddies distract us, perhaps fatally, by forcing us to re-focus on Iraq and abandon Afghanistan, he is now forcing us to argue with him over Iraq and Iran when the biggest problem facing the U.S. is elsewhere.

We are supporting the people who support the Taliban and Al Qaeda to kill our troops. Great! How much? Pakistan is the number 3 recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Israel and Egypt. And instead of focusing on this lunacy, we're worrying about a has been Defense jock who can't face up to the fact that he called for a war that's been a disaster.

was recently seen at Rumsfeld's new digs, shredding important documents as they gleefully toasted their dumb-ass fellow Americans for paying for the shredding machines (made from 2004 Ohio election machines I assume), the paid seven government laborers who are helping, and most of all, for buying into their crap in the first place. How do these people sleep at night knowing that their horrific ideation has caused so much death and hatred? This is all quite nauseating.

I regularly write to Neocons such as John Yoo, Richard Perle, David Brooks and Dick Cheney and tell them how I feel about their deception and criminality. The whole crew of Vulcans, including Wolfowitz and Rice, should be put on trial as enemies of our Republic.

Tell Mr. Perle how you feel (even if you're one of the right-wingers who cling onto his shirttails as the ship goes down):

rperle@aei.org

From a Hobbesian point-of-view, Saddaam should have been left in power. According to Hobbes, the "sovereign"'s only responsibility to the people under his rule is to keep order and security. In exchange for that, the people should be thankful and not demand anything from the sovereign. In other words, the sovereign owes his people nothing.

One of the most honest Americans I have ever had the honour of working with . Ummm , Richard Perle ummm , you have wonder where oh where*o this titanic fellow would orbit in the sober spin within the withery fleshy orb , what we laughingly call Dick cheney . Geez good ole dick en Dick brings a retroactive (late) tear to Hunt and Dick . Those were the days dick dick n* dick n* hunt , with a little smear here and a little lie there here a smear there a lie - eee eye eee eye Yough .

Remember kids when you go to sleep at night - BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA -

We fight so that we might

We might so we had better fight

the better to remember

that might makes right !

It is not the sobriety that makes me spin it is the gin .