James Wolcott: Little Bully Lobbies Big Bully into Doing Its Bombing

Posted by James Wolcott

I mean, bidding.

Not content with pimping Ahmed Chalabi and helping embroil the United States in one bloody mess in Iraq, Richard Perle wants to enlarge the theater of operations and bog us down in another one. He spoke the other day at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee--AIPAC--policy conference in Washington, DC. AIPAC has been involved in a spot of bother with the reeling in of Larry Franklin for passing classified documents to two executives of the pro-Israeli lobbying group. But AIPAC isn't going to let that put any more of a crimp in their plans than Richard Perle would let failed prophecies such as "A year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush" shame him from showing his bloodless bloodthirsty face.