Not far behind former CIA Director George Tenet's "Don't Blame Me" tour, we find the neocon's sinister Field Marshall, Richard Perle. Interviewed on CNN, Perle is ducking blame for his role in the rush to war with Iraq, claiming that he never subscribed to the belief that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. But on September 16, 2001, he claimed on CNN that there were ties between Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden, ties which he still claims have been documented, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Wonder what he thinks the purpose of those "ties" were, then, if he didn't believe there was a connection between them that led to 9/11? He further said in the interview that he was in favor of removing Saddam long before 9/11, but denies telling Tenet shortly after 9/11 that we had to go after Iraq.
Who's lying? While neither would win a Boy Scout of the Year award, Perle is more slippery by far. A 2004 account of the push by the neocons to make war on Iraq in "Mother Jones" is revealing. The nexus between this group, the American Enterprise Institute (neocon central), and the Likud Party in Israel is also interesting.
