Of course, Iraqi “intelligence” was not “inadequate,” it was a bald-face lie, as even the most casual observer cannot avoid realizing. Perle knows this, but he is a scurrilous and amoral liar who buys into the Straussian tenet that people must be lied to—and the more brazen the lie, the better. As Hitler knew—and expounded upon in his treatise, Mein Kampf—the masses, “in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.” And to this day, regardless of all the glaring evidence to the contrary, millions of Americans believe Bush would not tell such a brazen lie about Iraq’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. It was simply an “intelligence failure” and Perle repeats this falsehood.

“Perle is one of the top U.S. neoconservatives who advocated a pre-emptive invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam and seize alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. No such stockpiles were found after the war and U.S. President George W. Bush has acknowledged that the intelligence was bad.” In fact, this was a massive conspiracy engaged in by both the Bush administration and the corporate media—shifting the blame to the CIA, since to become a handy dog to kick around, while the center of lies and dissimulation was in the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, dominated by Jabotinsky Likudites and their Straussian neocon fellow travelers and co-conspirators.

“Asked if he thought a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities was an inevitability, Perle said: ‘I hope that can be avoided but that’s always a possibility. We are talking about physical facilities and they’re always vulnerable.’”

Of course, Perle does not “hope” mass murder and possibly the nuking of Iran “can be avoided,” for the Straussian neocons are all about killing Muslims with impudence, as the Israelis are all about killing Palestinians, including defenseless children, with impudence. Richard Perle wants us to believe he is rational and moderate, when in fact he is a Straussian radical and war criminal who should spend the rest of his natural days in an orange jumper, making sure not to drop the soap in a prison shower.