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Thread ID: 5548 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-03-14
2003-03-14 19:15 | User Profile
[url=http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55446&group=webcast]http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article...6&group=webcast[/url] RICHARD PERLE CAUGHT RUNNING A $100-MILLION SHEIK-DOWN by Rosalinda 12:06am Fri Mar 14 '03 (Modified on 1:39pm Fri Mar 14 '03)
Richard Perle, one of the most outspoken war party figures in and around the Bush Administration, has been caught in a $100-million attempted blackmail ``sheik-down'' of the Saudis, which could land him in jail.
As reported in the current (March 17, 2003) issue of The New Yorker, in an expose by Seymour Hersh, Perle met, in Marseille, France, on Jan. 3, 2003, with former Iran-Contra figure Adnan Khashoggi and a second Iraqi-Saudi businessman, and, according to Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar, offered to call off of his and his fellow neo-con's Saudi-bashing operations, in return for a $100-million payoff ``investment'' in one of his companies, Trireme Partners L.P.
Of course, it was Perle who brought the stark-raving loon, Laurent Murawiec, before the Defense Policy Board, on July 10, 2002, to call for the U.S. military occupation of the Saudi oil fields; and it was Perle, again, who later got Murawiec his current job at the Washington office of the Hudson Institute--working under Meyrav Wurmser.
The expose so unnerved the power-mad Perle, that he went berserk, calling Hersh a terrorist, during a Sunday CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer.
Two weeks earlier, Perle had been similarly unnerved when Meet the Press host Tim Russert confronted him on his authorship of ``A Clean Break,'' the warplan that he, Doug Feith, David Wurmser, Meyrav Wurmser and others had written for Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, calling for the invasion of the Palestinian Authority territory and the military overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
The recent spate of public exposes of the ``Clean Break,'' and this latest expose of Perle's $100-million extortion scheme, are near to drawing blood.
In yet another serious blow to the neo-con war party gang, the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung (FAZ) published a major expose on Tuesday, March 11, of the Wolfowitz cabal inside the Bush Administration, directly nailing them as members of the philosophical kindergarten of Leo Strauss and Allan Bloom. The FAZ piece was a promo for a 90-minute television documentary on the same topic, which aired on Tuesday night on the German TV station, Arte. This is the second time in less than a week that the Leo Strauss role has been played up in the German media. Last week, it was the Suddeutsche Zeitung that lambasted the neo-cons and named Strauss as the godfather of the war party.
By raising the role of Leo Strauss as the fascist existentialist guru of the current breed of war party killers --some factions in Germany have clearly signalled that they are out to draw blood, and stop this damned war. These exposes will strengthen the position of Chancellor Schroeder, and the overall Franco-German resistance to the war, which, must also develop into a key element in the renewed Eurasian Landbridge push. In Germany, it is far more well-known than in the United States, that Leo Strauss was the associate and admirer of the official Nazi philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and the Nazi jurist Karl Schmitt. It was Schmitt who personally arranged for Strauss to leave Germany in 1934 on a Rockefeller Foundation grant--to go to England and France to study the original writings of Thomas Hobbes. From there, Strauss went to the New School, and then on to the University of Chicago, where he trained several generations of Neitzschean fascists, many of whom are now among the leading neo-cons. Paul Wolfowitz, for example, was the protege of the leading Straussian, Allan Bloom. When President George H.W. Bush rejected Wolfowitz and Cheney's demand, in 1991, to allow the U.S. forces to go on to Baghdad, Wolfowitz called Bloom to vent his anger at a President who just was not Neitzschean enough for his taste.
William Kristol, the son of Strauss cohort Irving Kristol, who was also singled out in the FAZ story, was trained at Harvard under another of Strauss' leading proteges; and Robert Kagan, the Brussels-based war party propagandist, who recently wrote, nonsensically, that the conflict between the U.S. and Europe is a battle between Hobbes and Kant, is a second-generation Straussian, whose father wrote a four volume commentary on Thucydides' {The Peloponnesian War}, which was a typical Straussian falsification of history (Strauss himself argued that Socrates and Plato were, indeed, the fascist totalitarians, described in the writings of I.F. Stone; but, while Stone attacked them, Strauss embraced the fascist smear of the great republican philosophers, as both true and commendable).
Two other events highlight the past days' intensification of the battle:
On Monday, March 10, both the London Times and BusinessWeek Online drew attention to a speech, given by former President George H.W. Bush, at Tufts University on Feb. 26, in which he urged his son not to go to war in anger, and warned against actions that might irreparably damage America's relations with longstanding allies abroad.
Second, we have reports from leading Democratic Party figures, that in a recent speech, Mega Group house pet Joe Lieberman has declared that:
and 2. To win election in 2004, and for the Democratic Party to be ``relevant,'' it is vital to wipe out all remnants of Franklin Roosevelt and the FDR tradition.
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[url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030313-13.html]http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...0030313-13.html[/url]
Q Ari, Richard Perle is the Chairman of the Defense Policy Board and the lead public advocate for war on Iraq. In the New Yorker Magazine this week, Seymour Hirsch reports that Perle is also managing partner of a venture capital company, Trireme Partners, and is positioned to profit from a war in Iraq. The Federal Code of Conduct, which governs Perle in this matter, prohibits conflict of interest. Henry Kissinger resigned from the 9/11 Commission because of similar business conflicts. When asked on Sunday by Wolf Blitzer about the New Yorker article, Perle called Hirsch "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist." Two questions. Given Perle's conflict of interest, and given the widespread public belief that this war is being driven by corporate interests -- war for oil, and war for defense contracts, war for construction companies -- does the President believe --
MR. FLEISCHER: Who's informed judgment is that?
Q Widespread public belief.
MR. FLEISCHER: Widespread? Or just that chair?
Q No, widespread. Does the President believe that Richard Perle should resign from the Defense Policy Board? And second question, do you agree with Richard Perle that Hirsch is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist?
MR. FLEISCHER: Russell, there's absolutely no basis to your own individual and personal statement about what may lead to war. If anything leads to war, it's the fact that Saddam Hussein has refused to disarm. And I think you do an injustice to people -- no matter what their background -- if you believe that people believe that Saddam Hussein should be disarmed for any reason that suggests personal profit.
Q Okay, what about the question, Ari? Should he resign and is he a terrorist?
MR. FLEISCHER: Russell, you've had your -- you've made your speech.
Q You didn't answer the question.
MR. FLEISCHER: You've made your speech.
2003-03-14 20:57 | User Profile
Richard Pearle along with all the other jew hustlers like Kristol, Pike, Indyke, Egleberger etc, that have us on the warpath need to be tried for treason and hate crimes if for no other reasons.