Tricky Dick

"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now." - Richard Perle, speaking to journalist John Pilger

Dick Perle. We all know and hate him. He was a Pentagon official during the shiny, happy Reagan administration, then he joined the Defense Policy Board, a lobbying group for whom he's been merrily shoveling bullshit at the American people for decades now. He liked the Military-Industrial Complex so much, he bought the company.

So, anyway, it gives me great pleasure to announce to you that someone has lobbed a shoe at Mr. Perle while he debated Howard Dean on the merits of the Iraq War. The protester was then carried out of the auditorium chanting "Liar! Liar!"

You've got to love meaningless protests by possibly unstable people. And I don't mean that sarcastically. I'm very happy there was someone off-balance and unmedicated enough to work up the courage to lob a projectile at a criminal like Dick Perle, who's responsible for more deaths than Charlie Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy could ever dream of in their wildest fantasies.

Because I don't have the gumption. To be honest, I never have the opportunity to throw shit at politicians because I don't cover when most of them come to town. But this is Richard Perle. He is a massive scumbag. Check out some of his "arguments" from this debate against Dean.

"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable to others."

Oh, like murdering families and then arresting the surviving members and subjecting them to months, if not years, of psychological and physical torture? Then lying about it to your own people and the rest of the world? Yeah, it's kind of "objectionable." I'd have called it "heinous" and "appalling," but "objectionable" will do.

Bear in mind, this was a guy who, before the war, predicted that, within one year of invasion, "a grand square in Baghdad named for President Bush."

He's made his living professionally discussing military matters with the fucking Pentagon. And he stated, seriously, in front of an audience, that he felt the Iraqis would respond by erecting a monument to President Bush. Folks, I knew better in early 2003, so did you, so did any thinking person. Imagine if you were this incompetent at your job! Imagine if one of The Apprentices were this incompetent! They'd be fired before Trump could even think of a crafty witticism! And their job doesn't even matter because it's just a bullshit TV show!

And the American people re-elected assholes just like this for four more years, because they don't like gay marriage. AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

So, here's how Perle responded at the Portland debate to charges that his prediction was inaccurate or, to put it another way, blindingly stupid.

"I'd be a fool not to recognize that it did not happen on the schedule I had in mind," Perle said, adding that he did not deny that the administration had made mistakes in Iraq.

But, Perle added, "I will be surprised, yet again, if we do not see a square in Baghdad named after this president."

Well, Dickie, get ready to be surprised.

So, this is around the time someone chucked their shoe at him. Can you blame him, folks? I suspect he only did it because he did not have a sack of rancid meat or a bag filled with his own excrement conveniently at hand. We'll have to organize it a bit better in the future.

Your boy Howard Dean, by the way, the new DNC Chair, did a terrific job, really laying into Dickie P. without actually lobbing anything directly at his person.