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To: American Spirit who wrote (380780)	3/28/2003 11:14:40 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

One prince of darkness down.....plenty to go Editor's Note: The importance of this resignation cannot be overstated. Along with Paul Wolfowitz, Perle is the very ideological embodiment of the Bush administration and its policies. He has pushed for this Iraq war for years, and was one of the loudest proponents of the "quick fight" theory that has so visibly fallen by the wayside. Based upon that theory, Perle, along with Don Rumsfeld, made sure that the troops currently in Iraq were few and lightly armed. This has proven to be a terrible way to fight the war. Perle's ultimate motivations were described in a recent truthout essay of mine, Blood Money. Journalist Seymour Hersh also recently laid waste to Perle's dubious reputation in a recent expose that is described below. Bye, Richard. - wrp Former Pentagon Official Richard Perle resigns as Key Rumsfeld Adviser By Robert Burns Associated Press Thursday 27 March 2003 WASHINGTON -- Richard Perle, a former Reagan administration Pentagon official, resigned Thursday as chairman of the Defense Policy Board that is a key advisory arm for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. In a brief written statement, Rumsfeld thanked Perle for his service and made no mention of why Perle resigned. He said he had asked Perle to remain as a member of the board. ''He has been an excellent chairman and has led the Defense Policy Board during an important time in our history,'' Rumsfeld said. ''I should add that I have known Richard Perle for many years and know him to be a man of integrity and honor.'' Perle was an assistant secretary of defense during the Reagan administration. He took the advisory board chairman's post early in Rumsfeld's tenure. Perle became embroiled in a recent controversy stemming from a New Yorker magazine article that said he had lunch in January with controversial Saudi-born businessman Adnan Khashoggi and a Saudi industrialist. The industrialist, Harb Saleh Zuhair, was interested in investing in a venture capital firm, Trireme Partners, of which Perle is a managing partner. Nothing ever came of the lunch in Marseilles; no investment was made. But the New Yorker story, written by Seymour M. Hersh, suggested that Perle, a longtime critic of the Saudi regime, was inappropriately mixing business and politics. Perle called the report preposterous and ''monstrous.'' Perle, 61, was so strongly opposed to nuclear arms control agreements with the former Soviet Union during his days in the Reagan administration that he became known as ''the Prince of Darkness.'' CC