Richard Perle: Still Crazy after all these years
I guess that PNAC kool-aid is the extra-strength variety. He still expects a grateful Iraq to name a square in Baghdad after W. At a debate in Portland:
Perle, a veteran of the Reagan administration and a former Pentagon adviser, was forced by one of the questioners to recast a comment he made on September 22, 2003, in which he predicted that within one year, there would be "a grand square in Baghdad named for President Bush."
"I’d be a fool not to recognize that it did not happen on the schedule I had in mind," Perle said, adding that he did not deny that the administration had made mistakes in Iraq.
But, Perle added, "I will be surprised, yet again, if we do not see a square in Baghdad named after this president." He did not specify a time.
A glimpse at the leader of the Shiite coalition voted into power fairly mocks Perle’s prediction. Ibrahim al-Jaafari has pledged to bring Moqtada al Sadr into his government. A perfect follow up to Perle would be to ask whether he thought Minister al Sadr would attend the ceremony in Baghdad to dedicate George W. Bush Plaza, while Sistani carves the ham served at the reception in W’s honor afterward. . .
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[...] But El Raj neglects to tell us: will he still have a grand square in Baghdad named after him, like fellow neocon Richard Perle predicted in 2003 (”The problems in Iraq are ahead of us, but we’re doing better than people think. And a year from now, I’ll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush“) and repeated in 2005? [...]