"With our nation at war and American troops risking their lives to protect our freedom and liberate Iraq, I am dismayed that your valuable time, and that of others in the Department of Defense and the administration might be burdened by the controversy surrounding my chairmanship of the Defense Policy Board," Perle wrote in a letter Wednesday to Rumsfeld.
Perle, one of George W. Bush's foreign policy advisers during the 2000 presidential campaign, was hired last week by the bankrupt Global Crossing telecommunications company to help it restructure a deal to sell a majority holding in the company to Hutchison Telecommunications and government-run Singapore Technologies Telemedia. The United States government -- particularly the Defense Department and the FBI -- has national security concerns about the deal, according to The New York Times. It would put Global Crossing's fiber optics network -- which the military uses -- under Chinese ownership.
Those of you who follow these things closely know that Richard Perle was a vey important adviser and war hawk within the administration. Now that the war is already begun his loss isn't quite as signifigant, but his influence on war matters cannot be underestimated. I don't know why Perle would involve himself with such a company in the wake of world events, but who knows why anybody does anything anymore. I'm glad he decided to resign rather than spend months explaining himself. China! They're not much nicer to their people than Iraq, Perle.
Terry McAuliffe that leader of the Democratic party guy once accepted $18 million from Global Crossing, but he didn't bother to resign when it became known. Like Clinton, he decided to stay and fight for the American people.
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