A real Perle of a rib-tickler on Iraq

The Prince of Darkness himself, Richard Perle, is now saying that if he knew in 2003 what he knows now about Bush Administration incompetence in general and Don Rumsfeld in particular, he would have advocated against invading Iraq.

There’s only one problem with this self back-patting: YOU DID KNOW THEN.

Remember Gen. Shinseki and the hundreds of thousands of extra troops he said would be needed, Richard? Remember how you joined Rumsfeld’s chorus of laughing him off the stage, then sabotaging his career.

And, Perle and Ken Adelman can go on to talk about “they,” as though the two of them were never a part of the Bush Administration.

Yes, a real rib-tickler, how you can lie to protect your “legacy.” The Prince of Darkness hasn’t lightened up one bit.

Update, Nov. 4 More proof Perle’s lying? A 1999 Pentagon war game estimated 400,000 troops would be needed not only to defeat Iraq but also maintain stability afterward, and even that number didn’t guarantee post-war stability. You simply cannot tell me that Perle, as part of the Project for a New American Century, hadn’t heard about the war game, as PNAC and its generator, the American Enterprise Institute, were already pushing to “do something” about Iraq a year or more before this date.