Him? Really?

Remember neo-cons Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz from the early days of the Iraq War debate? Perle was chair of the Defense Policy Board and used that position to push hard for war, advocating for Ahmad Chalabi’s installation as the new President of Iraq after the US toppled Saddam Hussein. Wolfowitz was Deputy Secretary of Defense during the period, and famously said about Iraq “We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.”

Well, they’ve surfaced and they are still advocating for Chalabi. This despite his prior record of selling American political leadership a bill of goods about Saddam’s “weapons of mass destruction,” which never existed, not to mention the millions of dollars he siphoned from the CIA to pay for his Iraq National Congress, a faction of Iraq’s politics which now has one member: himself.

Decent members of society should shun all these bastards, particularly if they show up in green rooms prior to appearing on television. Decent folk would say to talk-show bookers, “do you ever have any neocons on this show and do you allow them to spew their lies without criticism? If so, don’t call me to appear on the show.”