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Richard Norman Perle, né le 16 septembre 1941 à New York, a été conseiller politique auprès du secrétaire à la défense sous l'administration de Ronald Reagan et membre de la commission de la politique de défense de 1987 à 2004. Il est membre du Parti démocrate.

Richard Perle est surtout connu pour son idéologie néo-conservatrice et par sa défense de la guerre d'Irak en 2003 pour défaire le dirigeant irakien Saddam Hussein.

Il est également membre de l'American Enterprise Institute, de la direction du groupe Bilderberg, ainsi que présent dans le Projet pour un nouveau siècle américain et fut un des cosignataires de la lettre du 26 janvier 1998 envoyée au président Bill Clinton, lui demandant de désarmer par la force Saddam Hussein.

Perle est également considéré comme un proche du parti conservateur israélien, le Likoud. Wikipedia  

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“The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies—and I rather doubt that they would—would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.”

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The Times (25 September, 1986).

“I really don't have a solution. Except to say that a precondition for any solution must be a recognition on the part of all parties on the legitimacy of all parties. That is you cannot build a political agreement on the premise that a Jewish state in Palestine is illegitimate.”

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When asked about a solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a 1988 debate with Noam Chomsky at Ohio State University
Source: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=8409 http://chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=130

“About George W. Bush: "He came ill-equipped for the job and has failed to master it."”

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Notes: newspaper article reporting on Perle's statements at a meeting of the Hudson Institute on May 14, 2007.
Source: "Perle Turns on Bush in Harsh Terms", by Nicholas Wapshott, New York Sun, May 15, 2007 http://www.nysun.com/article/54448?page_no=1

“I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test”

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“National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.”

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An End To Evil: How To Win the War on Terror, David Frum, Richard N. Perle, Ballantine (reprint,2004), Chapter 5 'The War Abroad,' p. 102 : ISBN 0345477170

“Well, you’re going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.”

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PBS Think Tank interview by Ben Wattenberg, November 14, 2002
Source: http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript1017.html

“And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation.”

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Notes: from luncheon keynote speech, "Turkey at the Crossroads", September 22, 2003
Source: http://www.aei.org/events/contentID.20031003144313426/default.asp
Source: http://www.catch.com/comments/34635_0_17_0_C/

“Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.”

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2005 February 17 - In a debate with DNC Chairman Howard Dean at Pacific University

“I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.”

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2003
Notes: in reference to the legality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1089158,00.html