More Perles of Wisdom
Speaking of Perle, why do they send him all over the world to alienate every single one of our allies in the most rude and condescending way possible? It must be part of their cunning plan or they would tell him to shut his pie hole and stop doing things like this:
OTTAWA, April 3 (Reuters) - An influential adviser to the U.S. administration used an interview published on Thursday to write off Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien as "a lame duck" who was giving support to Saddam Hussein, and said Ottawa would pay a price for not sending troops to Iraq.
The comments by Richard Perle were the strongest attack yet by Washington on Chretien and underline how seriously relations between the world's two largest trading partners have deteriorated in recent months.
Officials say the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is irate over Canada's refusal to send troops to Iraq and a series of anti-American comments by members of Chretien's ruling Liberal Party.
Perle, a prominent neoconservative who sits on the Pentagon's influential Defense Policy Board, told the right-wing National Post newspaper that Washington felt Chretien -- who plans to step down in February 2004 -- was being irresponsible.
"The Prime Minister is a lame duck. So that may help explain the failure to appreciate the disappointment that would be caused not only by the Canadian government policy on Iraq, but by the cacophony of criticism -- much of it ill-informed and much of it simply name-calling," he said.
"There is simply no other way to describe the positions of some countries -- not many, but some countries -- which is to lend far more support to Saddam Hussein's regime than they may have intended by the positions they have taken."
According to the Post, Perle said the White House was looking forward to dealing with Chretien's replacement. One member of Chretien's cabinet said Bush had failed as a statesman while one Liberal legislator said she now hated the "damned Americans" and called them "bastards".
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Seriously, this continuing modus operandi of publicly proclaiming to the world that our policy is "my way or the highway" and that we will punish any country that dares to defy us is starting to get completely out of hand. I never thought William Kristol was completely blind and stupid, but apparently he is. If he weren't he'd put a stop to Perle. He's the only one who can.