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War Still Peachy, Says Perle

Like the knight guarding the bridge in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Richard Perle wants anybody who thinks this war is going badly to get back here and fight like a man! Perle, deposed last week from his official duties as a war planner, was among the most arrogant of Bush's people in asserting a fast Iraqi collapse prior to the invasion. Last July he pronounced thus: "Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder."  

Over the weekend the still-fearless Perle told the CBC that Gulf War II may be over more quickly than the first go-round. And the US casualties? They'll be nothing to speak of: "It's not going to be tens of thousands and I hope it's not even thousands. I hope it's not in the high hundreds but I don't know, nobody knows."

Posted by Steve Perry at March 31, 2003 9:57 AM

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