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Richard Perle: U.S. war policy 'grave error'
(Sandro Contenta, Toronto Star, 5/27/04)
Richard Perle, until recently a powerful adviser to U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, described U.S. policy in post-war Iraq as a failure. . . . "I would be the first to acknowledge we allowed the liberation (of Iraq) to subside into an occupation. And I think that was a grave error, and in some ways a continuing error," said Perle, former chair of the influential Defence Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon. . . . Perle said the biggest mistake in post-war policy "was the failure to turn Iraq back to the Iraqis more or less immediately. . . . "We didn't have to find ourselves in the role of occupier. We could have made the transition that is going to be made at the end of June more or less immediately," . . . This public criticism of U.S. policy from one of the leading advocates of the war -- and a firm political ally of U.S. President George W. Bush -- indicates just how much Bush's political fortunes are being damaged by post-war chaos.

posted by Lorenzo 5:24 PM