Perle under the gun - finally!

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Democrat has called for an investigation of Richard Perle, an architect of the war on Iraq (news - web sites), for possible conflicts of interest in his roles as corporate adviser and Pentagon (news - web sites) consultant.

Conyers also pointed out that Perle sits on the board of Autonomy Corp., which lists the U.S. Army and military as customers, and received stock options.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ess_perle_dc_2

But how is this any different from Cheney's connection with Halliburton?
And how about Bush's dad being on Carlyle group's payroll?
There's a lot of people in this administration making profits off this war. At a minimum that's a conflict of interest. I'd say more like treason.

[E. Blackadder]

The mind reels. How could anyone have known about Cheney's Halliburton connection? Or Gore's Apple connection? Or Clintons's book deals? Or Glenn's DWSimpson connection?