Fuseli Dreams of Richard Perle

Fuseli painted "The Nightmare". The title is an apt description of the neo-conservative nightmare through which we have come. I was listening to an interview with Richard Perle on NPR two days ago. Mr. Perle still believes Saddam Hussein's Iraq was hand-in-glove with Al Qaida. This is eminently taking a page from the Cheney handbook or the Karl Rove handbook. Mr. Rove in an NPR interview before the election said he saw many, many more polls than did his interlocutor. Thus he, Mr. Rove, was more well informed regarding the coming Republican victory. Mr. Perle has seen more documentation regarding Saddam Hussein's relationship with Al Qaida and so it goes in the neo-conservative cloud-cuckoo-land where they have so much more knowledge than we do. I find it totally beyond my understanding why - if the neo-cons use the faulty intelligence alibi to excuse their horrendous blunder into Iraq - the same neo-cons are sold on the infallibility of their mystery documents. The most outstanding stupidity of Mr. Perle and company is their naive assumption that a total authoritarian dictator like Saddam Hussein would ever have tolerated the presence of another power base in Iraq. To think that Hussein would allow Al Qaida to set up even a meager shop within the borders of Iraq flies in the face of dictatorial reason. Good riddance to those fools.