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PEOPLE
	Douglas J. Feith	Fellow neocon, "Feith was a special counsel to Mr. Perle when the Reagan-era assistant defense secretary was battling the Soviets." Washington Times, August 12, 2002
	Adnan Khashoggi	Perle met this Saudi arms merchant in Marseilles.
GROUPS & COMPANIES
	Trireme Partners	Richard Perle is managing partner of this venture capital firm, "dealing in technology, goods, and services that are of value to homeland security and defense." ^
	Defense Policy Board	Perle was voluntary chair until March 27, 2003. This is the article that brought him down.
	Israeli security	"In 1996, working with another protégé, Douglas Feith, now Donald Rumsfeld's third in command, Perle co-wrote a study for then-Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu terming Saddam Hussein's removal "an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right."" ^
	Iraqi Oil	" We went to great lengths to secure oil fields. This was done with one interest in mind, and that is the future of the Iraqi people and the capacity of the Iraqi nation to rebuild itself under a new and decent regime. We could have been indifferent that. We were not. We risked American lives to secure those oil fields. We have secured them for the people of Iraq, and that argument about our motives with respect to oil will be settled when this war is over and it is clear to everyone that that oil belongs to the people of Iraq and will be produced for the people of Iraq." Richard Perle, AEI seminar March 25, 2003
	Democracy in the Middle East	" We benefit enormously, Americans are more secure, when the world is more democratic. Nowhere, I think, is this more likely to prove true than in the Middle East, because you now have in that region a number of dictatorships, and dictatorships start wars. They start wars in part to remain in power in their own country. They need external enemies in order to continue to exert authoritarian control over their own population... So the more we can do to bring self-government to that region and to other countries in the world, the safer we are going to be." Richard Perle, AEI seminar March 25, 2003*
	Saudi Arabia	" I think the task of discouraging the continuing funding of this extremism from Saudi Arabia is an urgent task because in all the discussion about the root causes of terrorism, the one that it seems to me gets the least attention but is probably the most important certainly in the near term is the substantial amount of money that is available for extremist indoctrination through madrasas and other institutions. That's where the most fanatical suicidal terrorists are coming." Richard Perle, AEI seminar March 25, 2003*
	Democracy in the Middle East	With respect to Egypt and other countries in the region, I think we need to use, as I was saying earlier, all of the instruments of influence available to us in a measured way to move in the direction of more representative government. I don't think that means bringing every government down overnight, even if we were able to do it, but I think it does mean a strategy, a sustained objective to which we devote coherent resources. Richard Perle, AEI seminar March 25, 2003*
	US sole superpower	No one would have dreamed of raising the real possibility that the United States and Turkey might find themselves at war in the year 2003, and yet it is imaginable if people do crazy things, and they may do crazy things because people are behaving in unpredictable ways. No one would have imagined that the United States could and maybe should consider France and Germany to be strategic enemies, and yet they have behaved now for several months as if they were strategic enemies. Richard Perle, AEI seminar March 25, 2003*
	Egypt	" If Egypt thinks for one minute that we will go on indefinitely sustaining a government which is--what shall I call it-- autocratic, they're wrong, because the American public won't put up with it. It's only a matter of time before Congress explodes and says, "Why are we giving all these billions of dollars to this rotting corrupt government?" Richard Perle, AEI seminar March 25, 2003*
	US sole superpower	"America is automatically by our very nature drawn to support democrats and drawn to fight tyrants. And that is why the war that we are fighting against terrorism is an old-fashioned war of freedom against tyranny..." Richard Perle, AEI seminar March 25, 2003*
	UN sanctions	" If we were not acting now against Saddam Hussein, what would we have to anticipate? We would have to anticipate, I think, looking at the political situation that existed prior to this war, we would have to look at dwindling support for sanctions, which were already actively opposed by Russia and France, with the almost certain ultimate result that the sanctions would have been lifted and Saddam Hussein would have achieved a political victory of enormous proportions. That would almost certainly have been followed by the rearmament of Iraq with much greater freedom than it has had up until now, and even under the constraints of the current embargo it has managed to do things that pose a threat to us." Richard Perle, AEI seminar March 25, 2003*
	Committee for Peace in the Middle East	Perle was a member in 1991. "They all had titles like that, and it was really the Committee to Launch the War Against Saddam." Richard Perle November 30, 2001
	Foreign Poliucy Research Institute	Link
	the big picture	" If we destroy the Taliban in Afghanistan, and I’m confident we will, and we then go on to destroy the regime of Saddam Hussein, and we certainly could if we chose to do so, I think we would have an impressive case to make to the Syrians, the Somalis and others. We could deliver a short message, a two-word message: “You're next. You're next unless you stop the practice of supporting terrorism.” Given the fact that until now there has been no cost attached to supporting terror, I think there’s a reasonable prospect that looking at the costs on the one side— that is, that those regimes will be brought to an end— and the benefits on the other— they will decide to get out of the terrorist business. It seems to me a reasonable gamble in any event." Richard Perle, October 2001 Foreign Policy Research Institute Speech
	Iraqi Opposition	Richard Perle says: "The Iraqi opposition is kind of like an MRE [meals ready to eat, a freeze-dried Army field ration]. The ingredients are there and you just have to add water, in this case U.S. support." Testifying before Congress in 2000, Perle insisted, "We need not send substantial ground forces into Iraq when patriotic Iraqis are willing to fight to liberate their country." ^
	israeli security	"In 1996, working with another protégé, Douglas Feith, now Donald Rumsfeld's third in command, Perle co-wrote a study for then-Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu terming Saddam Hussein's removal "an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right."" ^

* Some remarks attributed to Richard Perle at the AEI seminar may have been made by Michael Ledeen. The transcript is not fully attributed at the time of this compilation.

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