An Administration Ally Goes Off-Message (Perle: administration "dysfunctional")

[Barrett808]

An Administration Ally Goes Off-Message
By Al Kamen
Wednesday, November 1, 2006; Page A19

Sensing GOP vulnerability, the Democrats' campaign ads focus on voter unhappiness with the Iraq war. The Republicans, in turn, prefer to talk about keeping us safe from terrorism.

So eyebrows popped up last week when none other than Richard Perle , former Reagan assistant secretary of defense, former Bush brain-truster on the Defense Policy Board, and a key promoter of the war to find Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, blistered the administration as "dysfunctional" when it comes to stopping someone from bringing "a nuclear weapon or even nuclear material into the United States."

"Knowing that there are people who wish to do that," Perle said, "knowing they are seeking weapons of mass destruction, you would think that we would have put in place a system or at least be working assiduously in the development of a system that would allow us to detect nuclear material entering the New York Harbor or Boston Harbor or what have you.

"But we haven't done that," he said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies gathering. "And the reason we haven't done that is hopeless bureaucratic obstruction. Somebody needs to shake that loose." Perle added that while some have tried to overcome the bureaucracy, no one has succeeded.

"I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional," Perle said. "And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/31/AR2006103101218.html

[C_U_L8R]

1. They're off the rails

jumped the shark
whatever you call it... any rational person would run as
fast as they can from the republicans.. they're gonna blow
and it ain't gonna be pretty

[movonne]

3. God I hope you are right...I can't think of anything that could make

me happier...

[lumpy]

8. Are you kidding?

Perle is goading Bushco to come down hard on Iran, Israel's arch enemy.

[jannyk]

2. Perle!? PNAC' Perle?

I'm gobsmacked and laughing like a drain.
:rofl:

[Supersedeas]

4. Nothing to see here: the Corp Media has a Dem to embarrass

[Ian David]

5. Bush just wants to wait for the mushroom cloud

"Those weapons of mass destruction have gotta be somewhere.... hey... lookit that... New York done blown-up. Huh. Now, watch this drive..."

Nuclear weapons would be used on urban areas.

Urban areas don't vote Republicker.

Now, if the terrorists had crop blights and cattle diseases and something that kills crystal-meth users, Bush would pay attention.

Eventually.

I think.

[seafan]

6. Last paragraph: Perle: 'But President Bush is NOT to blame for this sorry state of affairs.'

"I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional," Perle said. "And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can."

But President Bush, Perle emphasized, is not to blame for this sorry state of affairs. "I haven't the slightest doubt that if one could . . . put this proposition to the president, he would first be shocked to learn that we don't have the capability. Secondly, would immediately order that we develop it."

Once a snake, always a snake.



Photo Credit: UPI

[lumpy]

9. This is the face of a rational man.

LOL Kahane's replacement more like it.

[shanti]

10. what??

you mean "the decider" is not to blame?? come on....:eyes:

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Because, of course, Bush just can't find out about things

Maybe if the president was given people to help him - you could call them "advisers". Or you could set up some organisation to gather information centrally for him - call it, off the top of my head, a central intelligence agency. Or maybe found an office that would look at problems for the whole US - a sort of 'bureau of investigating, for the federation' - maybe that's not quite snappy enough. If only some previous presidents had had the foresight to provide these tools for the current hard-working occupant of the Oval Office. I blame them. Especially the last one. I bet it's his fault that The Google doesn't have this information. Or that al-gore fella (heh, isn't that Arabic?) I've heard he controls the Internets. (Hey - my Firefox spell-checker says there's no such word as 'internets' - that can't be right. I bet that gore guy has got at that too).

[Straight Shooter]

13. Guess what, Perle? bush is shocked at every new thing he "learns."

Dipwad didn't even know about Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.

Sorry, Perle, the buck stops at the White House. Stop making excuses for that pathetic twirp, because we all know you're just trying to keep from being smeared. Coward.

[lumpy]

7. Perle's prodding Bush to go to war again.

Impatient that Bush isn't working hard enough to go after Iran. Calling Bushco dysfunctionl might do the trick.

[rodeodance]

hey Perle-YOU were part of it.

[rodeodance]

11. hey Perle-YOU were part of it.

[Cleita]

14. He's just pushing the PNAC agenda for star wars or the

Strategic Defense Initiative, which was originally conceived of to defend us from the Soviet Union. The Bush administration is dragging their collective asses on this because they are too busy filling their pockets with our tax dollars.

Someone also needs to point out to him that the dysfunction in this administration is due to them implementing his and his fellow PNACer's political ideology that isn't workable in the real world because it mainly revolves around military strength and nothing else.