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During the Reagan administration, Feith acted as special counsel to then-Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle. His first administration job was as a Middle East specialist in the National Security Council in 1981, and he was appointed to serve as deputy assistant secretary of defense in 1984.
And of course, invading Iraq was a pre-9/11 pet project of the administration’s neocons, repackaged as a response to the al Qaeda attacks. During his confirmation hearing, Paul Wolfowitz told the Senate Armed Services Committee he “would certainly think it was worthwhile?...
But Arafat remains Arafat, the horse Palestinians count on to win the competition. And Palestinians will not replace him in the middle of the race—especially not under pressure from anyone whose understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was shaped by pro-Israel cheerleaders like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard...
Re your coverage of the controversy surrounding Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council and a former U.S. ally [June 7]: The Bush Administration neoconservatives should be fired for their support of Chalabi, who misled American leaders into attacking Iraq. Your story quoted Richard Perle, a Bush defense...
It was the CIA that was responsible for launching the separate leaks probe, which Chalabi's backers see as just the latest in a long series of attempts by the agency to undermine him. Richard Perle, a Bush defense adviser who has met with White House officials to plead Chalabi...