Iran 'Up to Eyeballs' in Terror - Pentagon Adviser

[Judi Lynn]

Iran 'Up to Eyeballs' in Terror - Pentagon Adviser
Thu November 6, 2003 10:11 AM ET

By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent
BERLIN (Reuters) - Influential Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said on Thursday that Iran was "up to its eyeballs in terrorism" and the United States should quietly be encouraging a democratic revolution from within.

"Is there any doubt about Iran's support for terrorism, about their payments to Hamas and Hizbollah?" Perle said in a speech in Berlin, referring to Islamic radical groups.

Speaking later to Reuters, he said there was "massive discontent" among Iranians with their ruling Islamic clerics.

"I think we may well see a regime change in Iran brought about by Iranians, but they need some help. They need more broadcasting so that communications are improved. We should be prepared to help them get newspapers published in their own country," Perle said.

"I think the potential is there for regime change, but we should encourage it." (snip/...)

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3769853

[Walt Starr]

1. Setting the stage for an invasion

Coming to a 24 hour news channel near you, October of 2004.

[joeybee12]

2. What about Syria? The plan was Iraq, Syria and then Iran!

We should crush the infidels in their original order, dammit!

[DeathvadeR]

7. As if Iran would sit still while Syria is attacked?

Not to mention NK will be even more spooked...The next military action will result in ultimatley WWII.

[htuttle]

3. He does the Iranian opposition an extreme disservice talking this way

The democratic opposition in Iran has made it quite clear that they don't even want the HINT of a suggestion that they are being supported by the US, particularly by the likes of Richard Perle.

Richard Perle should keep his worm-eating trap shut. (as always...).

Why does the press act like he's a representitive of our government? I mean, the press doesn't cover MY statements on Iran and Iraq -- why his? (unless he actually DOES speak for the US government, in which case he's got a LOT of conflicts of interest...).

[Magleetis]

4. The US

tried the democracy thing once in Iran. I guess the * admin does not remember the results. History really does repeat itself.

[The Stranger]

5. Let Mr. Perle speak . . .

. . . and let Madame Defarge continue her knitting . . .

[NashVegas]

15. and speak, and speak and speak

....

[leftchick]

6. gee thanks for the picture Judilyn!

...and I was about to eat lunch too...:puke:

[kclown]

8. I notice Reuters didn't report

how much they paid Perle for his wisdom.

[Stephanie]

9. Who let Perle out of his cage?

Why are he and Wolfowitz suddenly out in the public eye trying to justify their reckless policies? Does BushCO think this is good PR? They should both be on trial, not on CNN.

11. they had to let him out

yesterday to try to explain away why they ignored peace overtures from Iraq before the onset of the war. Now he's got a chance to talk about his pets again.

[SpiralHawk]

10. Fortunate-lee, we will have 85,000 "replacement" troops

right next door very shortly.

How con-veeen-ient !

85,000 GIs Told They're Heading to Iraq

By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON - About 85,000 U.S. troops have been alerted they will soon be sent to Iraq (news - web sites) to relieve forces who have been there for up to a year, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20031106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_troops.


"President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either."
-- David Letterman

[LeftistGorilla]

12. YEEE HAW!!!

RIDE EM COWBOY!!!!


:nuke:

[Flying_Pig]

13. So now ze evil Doktor stir de pot again, dis time about Iran. PNAC

mantra ....They never stop do they?

<http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,287510,00.jpg>

[leetrisck]

14. Ole Richard Pearle coming out of the woodwork

again. This man cannot be trusted - just this am the report about the last minute try by Iraq to avoid war and the man they were dealing with was Pearle. Why, why, why? Pearle is not part of the Administration - he's part of Defense Policy Board??? What is going on with this?

[Melinda]

16. Lest we all forget, this is "Total War"

The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined in prophetic detail in a document written more than two years ago and disclosed only recently. What was needed for America to dominate much of humanity and the world's resources, it said, was "some catastrophic and catalysing event - like a new Pearl Harbor". The attacks of 11 September 2001 provided the "new Pearl Harbor", described as "the opportunity of ages". The extremists who have since exploited 11 September come from the era of Ronald Reagan, when far-right groups and "think-tanks" were established to avenge the American "defeat" in Vietnam. In the 1990s, there was an added agenda: to justify the denial of a "peace dividend" following the cold war. The Project for the New American Century was formed, along with the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute and others that have since merged the ambitions of the Reagan administration with those of the current Bush regime.


The "Prince of Darkness" himself

One of George W Bush's "thinkers" is Richard Perle. I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about "total war", I mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term again in describing America's "war on terror". "No stages," he said. "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

http://pilger.carlton.com/print/124759

[Emillereid]

17. Richard Perle gives me the hibe-jibes!

He fills me with terror up to my eyeballs. He must be a terrorist!

I definitely agree that he is the second coming of Goebbels -- like a vampire he will not die. Someone get the cross and the garlic!