Richard Perle admitting to errors in Iraq? Could it be?

[Lucky Luciano]

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1085523609417&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154

LONDON, England—One of the ideological architects of the Iraq war has criticized the U.S.-led occupation of the country as "a grave error."

Richard Perle, until recently a powerful adviser to U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, described U.S. policy in post-war Iraq as a failure.

"I would be the first to acknowledge we allowed the liberation (of Iraq) to subside into an occupation. And I think that was a grave error, and in some ways a continuing error," said Perle, former chair of the influential Defence Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon.

With violent resistance to the U.S.-led occupation showing no signs of ending, Perle said the biggest mistake in post-war policy "was the failure to turn Iraq back to the Iraqis more or less immediately.

"We didn't have to find ourselves in the role of occupier. We could have made the transition that is going to be made at the end of June more or less immediately," he told BBC radio, referring to the U.S. and British plan to transfer political authority in Iraq to an interim government on June 30.

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[Quixote1818]

1. For once Perle makes a good point.

[corriger]

5. never this wanker

[Zinfandel]

2. Everyone has to take the blame...Just as long as the Messiah, Bush, never

ever admits to making a mistake...image...He is infallible and good...and it's all the others making the human mistakes. (Rove knows the bullshit well).

And taking the blame, means your a good chickenhawk patriot soldier (for the imperialist fascist corporate cause, making them all, so "un-godly" rich) BushCo will make sure you get your job back (if your lost it in battle, taking the blame protecting the king).

As BushCo steals the election, again!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Oh Richard you WROTE part of the plan used

you are a PINacer extraordinaire.

You have blood on your hands,

Too late to try to distance yourself, or did your friend Paul Wolfowitz caught you off from the profits?

or is this just another Straussian game that you are playing?

I think it is the latter... but what would we know?

[corriger]

4. NO! by no mean this bloody idiot

speaking trashes.

[dudeness]

6. ahh..the prince of darkness speaks..

what in reality perle is proposing here..is placing chalabi in charge immediately after saddam was toppled and instigating and supporting a brutal ,dictatorial regime of the same magnitutide as that of saddams..this would enabled the oil oligarchs to secure the natural resources immediately and start the privatisation of iraq..thats what this prick wanted..to hell with democracy is perles catchcry..

[corriger]

7. well no

no , it is all quite past this. We see diffent.

[shraby]

8. Perle is looking for a job

in the Kerry administration is my guess...remember that Negroponte is back in business.

[oblivious]

9. They all wanted to be the tough guys - show the world how tough they were

Perle, Bush, the neocons, Bremer, the generals, they all had this attitude. Don't give an inch. Show em whose boss. Never show weakness. As if being fair is a weakness. What a bunch of fucking assholes. A walking talking unnatural disaster.

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. Sure, but the invasion was still a good idea right?

"was the failure to turn Iraq back to the Iraqis more or less immediately" And how was that going to work Mr. know-it-all nit wit?
THIS guy is even forgetting about the "prize" - largest oil reserves in the universe.