Attention Leslie:

Henry S. Rowen, GHW Bush Admin member and more recently, member of the Silberman/Robb Committee, admits to knowledge of Pak Nuke aspirations during the Admin of Poppa Bush. Although the USA Today link given doesn’t provide attribution, I know from previously scraped URLs, now dead, that Kelley is the author.

Matt Kelley – AP, “Pakistan threatened to give nukes to Iran, ex-officials say”, USA Today, April 27, 2004
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-02-27-us-pakistan_x.htm

In Re Perle:

Jim Lobe documents Perle’s distortions at the AntiWar.com blog:

Tenet v Perle, May 3, 2007
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/05/03/tenet-v-perle/

Tenet v Perle II, May 11, 2007
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/05/11/tenet-v-perle-ii/

Ongoing, future writings will refer back to Tenet’s book as “The Official Word” about whatever it is they’re citing, then add their own two cents worth, which will then in turn become accepted as fact by the next; and so on.

Another example of how lies become accepted as fact.

Leslie, thanks for posting this. This assertion by Perle is laughable! Good god, anyone who reads a newspaper or magazine would know this! (Oh right, Bush doesn’t read. But his henchmen do. They knew.)

Perle’s contention is idiotic — well, moreso, it’s pathetic and criminal in its accidental admission that he and the rest of Bush’s handlers weren’t paying attention to world events, or even discussing hot spots.

I do not believe that our country would allow an attack to promote their agenda, but there is enough conflicting evidence that something is very wrong with this “government” since the day they got in.
this boob was the one in charge. he seems to have looked the other way while a lot of things happened. so many times that his role in a conspiracy of silence indicates to many that it was not strictly silence.

“When Defense Department officials pressed the CIA to reassess whether Hussein’s intelligence service supported terrorists, and had links to al-Qaeda, Tenet first resisted, then treated with derision the evidence of such links that CIA analysts had ignored….

“But the greatest intelligence failure of the past two decades was the CIA’s failure to understand and sound an alarm at the rise of jihadist fundamentalism. It is Wahhabi extremism and the call to holy war against infidels that gave us the perpetrators of Sept. 11 and much of the terrorism that has followed. In his attempts to blame others for CIA shortcomings, Tenet cannot say, “I told the president that our Saudi allies were financing thousands of mosques and schools around the world where a hateful doctrine of holy war and violence was being inculcated in young potential terrorists.” Fatefully, the CIA failed to make our leaders aware of the rise of Islamist extremism and the immense danger it posed to the United States.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/10/AR2007051001808.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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Saddam had no ties to al Qaeda. Don’t these guys follow the news? Then Perle says the greatest threat to US security has been the rise of Wahhabism. Hello, the Wahhabis are in Saudi Arabia. Wasn’t Bush just holding hands with Crown Prince Abdullah at the White House?

Regarding Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program: Didn’t Reagan and Bush Sr. enable, or at least look the other way, while Pakistan developed its nukes? Then Secretary of Defense Cheney and then Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense Scooter Libby were involved too. Why do those names sound so familiar? Just read this chilling account in rawstory.com a few days ago, “They Sold Out the World for an F-16 Sale”: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/They_sold_out_world_for_F16_0426.html

I agree with you Clark, to the Hague, yesterday, please