Heat on The Prince of Darkness
One of the
architects
of the Bush regime's invasion of Iraq, nicknamed "The Prince of
Darkness" for his dark deeds, is Richard Perle. He served as a
foreign-policy adviser in Bush the elder's Presidential campaign, as
Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, is connected to a
chain of neo-conservative
think tanks, and until the other day, was
chairman of the Defense Policy Board at the Pentagon.
The recent
controversy
over Perle's financial connections to the military-industrial complex and
his potential to gain
personally from the invasion (something
others in in the Bush regime seem to share as well) appears to be even
more scandalous than the Teapot Dome affair which took down President
Harding's administration in the 1920s. Be that as it may, there is
something even more disturbing about The Prince of Darkness: his work
(along with other Bush inc. execs: Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz) with
the far-right Project for
the New American Century (PNAC) that has
advocated creating a "pax Americana" - a new American empire.
A report titled
"Rebuilding America's
Defenses" by PNAC has been called a
blueprint for American world domination. The Prince of Darkness and The
Empire's other dark forces are not going
unchallenged,
but just how much outrage will be needed to prevent the establishment of
a fascist state in the U.S., which fuses political, judicial, military
and capitalist monopoly power?
[ DC IMC: Protesters picket
Perle meeting, blast PNAC ]
