Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Richard Perle's New Talking Point
Richard Perle watchers should be pleasantly surprised by The Prince of Darkness's recent performance on O'Reilly. He seems to be spicing up the old act with some new material, finally.
For the past several months Perle's TV appearances have featured him reciting a single exciting talking point over and over again, that everything would have been fine in Iraq had only the US turned the country over to everyone's favorite Iraqi expatriate conman. The primary difference from one Perle performance to another has been in the euphemism he chooses for "Ahmed Chalabi". (On O'Reilly he said, "I’m not saying that everything would have worked out, but everything certainly didn’t work out the way we did it. My own view is we should have supported a government in exile even before going into Iraq.")
But on Monday night he mixed it up a little. He said that everything would have been fine in Iraq had only the US turned the country over to Ahmed Chalabi and the fact that we didn't was entirely Colin Powell's fault.
So, there you go ... this new insightful analysis should be good for another six thousand or so media appearances...
For the past several months Perle's TV appearances have featured him reciting a single exciting talking point over and over again, that everything would have been fine in Iraq had only the US turned the country over to everyone's favorite Iraqi expatriate conman. The primary difference from one Perle performance to another has been in the euphemism he chooses for "Ahmed Chalabi". (On O'Reilly he said, "I’m not saying that everything would have worked out, but everything certainly didn’t work out the way we did it. My own view is we should have supported a government in exile even before going into Iraq.")
But on Monday night he mixed it up a little. He said that everything would have been fine in Iraq had only the US turned the country over to Ahmed Chalabi and the fact that we didn't was entirely Colin Powell's fault.
So, there you go ... this new insightful analysis should be good for another six thousand or so media appearances...
