Inside job: Richard Perle plays the Pentagon's undercover agent in a propaganda war against Iraq. (Gazette).(War on Terrorism, 2001-)
American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Marshall, Joshua Micah
IF YOU'VE CAUGHT MUCH OF THE TV commentary about the "war against terrorism," you've probably seen a lot of Richard Perle, the portly, Ronald Reagan--era assistant secretary of defense who kept the defense-hawk home fires burning throughout the Bill Clinton years from a perch at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
On such shows as MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports, Perle advocates taking our fight against Osama bin Laden to the next level and using American military power to overthrow Saddam Hussein. And if the ...
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