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Richard Perle is a former neoconservative pentagon policy advisor who was chairman of the [[Defense Policy Board]] for 17 years<ref>Julian Borger, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/feb/27/iraq.usa Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post], 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>. Perle served as assistant secretary for defence under [[Ronald Reagan]], during this time he was known as "The Prince of Darkness"<ref>Julian Borger, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/feb/27/iraq.usa Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post], 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>. [[Seymour Hersh]] described Perle as "one of the most outspoken and influential supporters of the war in Iraq <ref>Seymour M. Hersh,[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/17/030317fa_fact Lunch With the Chairman], ''The New Yorker'', 17-March-2003, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>.
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Richard Perle is a former neoconservative pentagon policy advisor who was chairman of the [[Defense Policy Board]] for 17 years<ref>Julian Borger, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/feb/27/iraq.usa Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post], 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>. Perle served as assistant secretary for defence under [[Ronald Reagan]], during this time he was known as "The Prince of Darkness"<ref>Julian Borger, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/feb/27/iraq.usa Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post], 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>. [[Seymour Hersh]] described Perle as "one of the most outspoken and influential supporters of the war in Iraq <ref>Seymour M. Hersh,[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/17/030317fa_fact Lunch With the Chairman], ''The New Yorker'', 17-March-2003, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>.  
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==Controversies==
 
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A report by the former chairman of the [[Securities and Exchange Commision]] Richard Perle served as the enabler for [[Conrad Black]] to "improperly take hundreds of millions of dollars", Perle was singled out in the report for having conflicts of interest <ref>Stephen Labaton, [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/06/business/media/06perle.html Perle Asserts Hollinger's Conrad Black Misled Him], ''The New York Times'', 06-September-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>. Richard Perle denies these allegations and asserts that he was misled by [[Conrad Black]]<ref>Stephen Labaton, [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/06/business/media/06perle.html Perle Asserts Hollinger's Conrad Black Misled Him], ''The New York Times'', 06-September-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>.
 
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===Selling the Iraq War===
 
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Richard Perle was closely linked to [[Ahmad Chalabi]] who was the source of much of the questionable intelligence on Iraq which was passed to Washington before the war<ref>Julian Borger, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/feb/27/iraq.usa Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post], 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>.
 
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[[Donald Rumsfled]] asked Richard Perle to chair the [[Defense Policy Board]] in 2001<ref>Seymour M. Hersh,[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/17/030317fa_fact Lunch With the Chairman], ''The New Yorker'', 17-March-2003, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>. While chairman of the Defense Policy Board Perle worked with [[Devon Cross]] who lobbied to sell the Iraq War to the UK and Europe through the [[Policy Forum]]. The Policy Forum claimed success in selling U.S. foreign policy to the British Media, Claiming:
 
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:"The media response, has been both prompt and enthusiastic, editors of The [[Financial Times]], [[The Daily Telegraph]], [[The London Times]], [[The Economist]], [[The Sun]] and [[The Spectator]] have all participated in our discussions"<ref>Policy Forum, [http://www.policyforumuk.com/b/ About Us], Accessed 08-April-2009</ref>.
 
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For these lobbying efforts, at the end of 2007, the US Department of Defence paid the Policy Forum around $80,000 which was paid to Devon Cross<ref>Jim Lobe, [http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=118#more-118 Is the Pentagon Policy Shop Funding Likudist Fronts?], ''IPS'', 18-March-2008, Accessed 08-April-2009</ref>.
 
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While [[Devon Cross]] was successfully selling the war in Iraq to [[The Telegraph]] in the U.K., Richard Perle was on the board of [[Hollinger International]] who owned the newspaper. At this time [[The Telegraph]] also accused prominent anti-war MP [[George Galloway]] of being in the pay of [[Saddam Hussein]],profiting from the oil-for-food programme and using the Mariam Appeal for personal enrichment. Galloway successfully sued the paper for defamation and received £150,000 in damages. <ref>Chris Tryhorn, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/dec/02/Iraqandthemedia.politicsandthemedia Galloway wins libel case against Telegraph], ''The Guardian'', 02-December-2004, Accessed 14-May-2004</ref> Richard Perle was also serving as an advisor to the [[Foundation for Defnse of Democracies]] at this time, it was (FDD) journalist [[Claudia Rosett]] who originally broke the oil-for-food scandal<ref>Daniel McCarthy, [http://www.amconmag.com/article/2003/nov/17/00017/ The American Conservative], 17-November-2003</ref>.
 
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Perle was named in an internal investigation into [[Hollinger International]], Perle was investigated for receiving $3m in bonuses from Hollinger some of which went to Perle's own company [[Trireme]]. [[Boeing]] invested £20m in [[Trireme]] shortly before Perle advocated a pentagon scheme for leasing Boeing tankers to support the Iraq war, Perle denied any conflict of interest<ref>Julian Borger, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/feb/27/iraq.usa Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post], 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009</ref>.
 
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*Neocon Europe [http://www.neoconeurope.eu/Richard_Perle Richard Perle]
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*Rightweb [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1315.html Richard Perle]
  
  
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[[Category:Neocons|Perle, Richard]]

Revision as of 21:54, 15 May 2009

Richard Perle is a former neoconservative pentagon policy advisor who was chairman of the Defense Policy Board for 17 years[1]. Perle served as assistant secretary for defence under Ronald Reagan, during this time he was known as "The Prince of Darkness"[2]. Seymour Hersh described Perle as "one of the most outspoken and influential supporters of the war in Iraq [3].

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  1. ↑ Julian Borger, Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post, 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009
  2. ↑ Julian Borger, Pentagon Hardliner resigns from post, 27-February-2004, Accessed 15-May-2009
  3. ↑ Seymour M. Hersh,Lunch With the Chairman, The New Yorker, 17-March-2003, Accessed 15-May-2009
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