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March 26, 2003
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The Beautiful Face of America
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Robert Fisk
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April
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Jeffrey St. Clair
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Peacekeepers at Ground Zero
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The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective
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March 21, 2003
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Blood for Oil:
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Scott Handleman
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Brian J. Foley
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Zoltan Grossman
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Sima Saeedi
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March
29, 2003
Perle Resigns, But the Looting Continues
The
Goods on Perle
By DAVID KRIEGER
Richard
Perle has resigned as chairman of the Pentagon Defense Policy Board,
a group of influential advisors of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. Perle
has been embroiled in a controversy over accepting money from a US corporation,
Global Crossing, which sought Perle's help in obtaining Defense Department
approval of the sale of the company to Asian investors. Perle would
reportedly receive $725,000 for his "work," with $600,000
contingent upon him delivering the "goods."
Perle
wrote in his resignation letter to Secretary Rumsfeld, "I have
seen controversies like that before and I know that this one will inevitably
distract from the urgent challenge in which you are now engaged."
Denying any wrongdoing (what's wrong with being on the Defense Policy
Board and lobbying for corporate clients?), Perle emphasized that he
did "not wish to cause even a moment's distraction" from the
US war against Iraq.
Investigative
journalist Seymour Hersh recently published an article in the New Yorker
suggesting that Perle had been inappropriately mixing business with
pleasure when he had lunch in Marseilles in January with notorious arms
dealer Adnan Khashoggi and a Saudi industrialist, Harb Saleh Zuhair.
Perle found the report to be "monstrous."
Defense
Secretary Rumsfeld, who is allowing Perle to remain a member of the
Defense Policy Board (just not its chairman), had nothing but praise
for Perle. "He has been an excellent chairman," Rumsfeld said,
"and has led the Defense Policy Board during an important time
in our history." Since Perle assumed the role of chairman in July
2001, Rumsfeld's "important time" presumably refers to US
efforts to fight against terrorism and its wars against Afghanistan
and Iraq.
Rumsfeld
continued, "I should add that I have known Richard Perle for many
years and know him to be a man of integrity and honor."
The
Wall Street Journal reported in a March 27, 2003 article that other
members of the Defense Policy Board may also have financial conflicts
related to their business interests and policy advice to the government.
Among those named in the article were former CIA Director James Woolsey,
retired Admiral David Jeremiah, and retired Air Force General Ronald
Fogelman.
When
Secretary Rumsfeld was asked for a comment on these potential conflicts
of interest, the reporters were told that the Secretary was busy and
unable to comment on the matter. In all fairness, the Secretary has
been busy promoting and prosecuting the Bush administration's preventive
war against Iraq and handing out lucrative contracts to firms such as
Vice President Cheney's former firm, Halliburton, to rebuild Iraq after
our missiles and bombs have destroyed it.
David
Krieger is president of the Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation. He is the author of Choose Hope, Your Role
in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age (Middleway Press, 2002). He can be
reached at: dkrieger@napf.org
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Richard Perle: the Enterprising Hawk
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