Wednesday, August 20, 2008

In 1989, the Wall Street Journal reported that Richard Perle and Douglas Feith had set up a lobbying company called International Advisors Inc [IAI] to lobby for “appropriation of U.S. military and economic assistance’ to Turkey."” When news of the $600,000 per annum contract got too hot to handle, Perle and Feith folded ( Read more... )

Perle Linked to Kurdish Oil Plan

By Susan Schmidt and Glenn R. Simpson

Influential former Pentagon official Richard Perle has been exploring going into the oil business in Iraq and Kazakhstan, according to people with knowledge of the matter and documents outlining possible deals.

Mr. Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing the ( Read more... )

Is nothing sacred anymore? ;-)

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Neocons Gone Wild

Posted by Joe Klein
My post below, re the surge, has set off squeals of outrage over at Contentions, the Commentary magazine blog. This is to be expected, but still sad when one of the squealers is Max Boot, whose work ( Read more... )