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originally posted by Whomod:

Finally, i never got any feedback from Dave TWB about Richard Perle admitting the invasion of Iraq was illegal (see posted article at the top of the page). There is no evil media to blame here. This came out of the horses mouth.
I'm confident it's another Bush-bashers' narrow reading, to interpret what Perle said to be incriminating, when in full context it clearly wasn't.

Just like the one you quoted several times, where President G.W. Bush said that "there is no evidence of a link between al Qaida and Saddam Hussein", while Vice President Cheney said to Tim Russert on Meet the Press that links between al Qaida and Saddam Hussein cannot be PROVEN, but great amounts of circumstantial evidence indicates a link.

You --and the Bush bashing liberal press-- parade this as a "contradiction", when the two are clearly compatible.


Here is a link to a recent interview on PBS News with Richard Perle:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec03/funding_9-22.html

He doesn't sound critical of the Bush administration for its policy in Iraq. On the contrary, the "illegality" of U.S. action you describe is, in truth, more consistent with the 10 prior U.N. resolutions. As opposed to the posturing of France, Germany, and Bush-hating liberals worldwide.

If "illegality" is enforcing the U.N.'s, and thus the WORLD'S, 10 prior resolutions, then that's a kind of illegality the world needs. One where laws really mean something, and are enforced.

And where dictators are not free to go on killing another 1 million of their own citizens and burying them in mass graves, while simultaneously planning and keeping ready a weapons-of-mass destruction-program, to begin production the moment inspectors leave their country, in addition to the stockpiled tons of WMD's THE U.N. ITSELF says are STILL MISSING, according to their inventory count of Saddam's own records.
And possibly many more already made, buried in the sand somewhere.

Perle's words are not in contradiction, or admission, of whatever definition of "illegality" you'd like to believe.