Changes

* ''Overall opinion of the wisdom of the war.''  As noted above, Perle was originally a staunch supporter of the war in Iraq.  In a 2006 [[Vanity Fair]] article, he stated: "I think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we are today, and people had said, 'Should we go into Iraq?,' I think now I probably would have said, 'No, let's consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists'....Could we have managed that threat by means other than a direct military intervention? Well, maybe we could have."<ref name="Vanity Fair">[http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612 Vanity Fair interview of several neoconservatives]</ref>

* ''Overall opinion of the wisdom of the war.''  As noted above, Perle was originally a staunch supporter of the war in Iraq.  In a 2006 [[Vanity Fair]] article, he stated: "I think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we are today, and people had said, 'Should we go into Iraq?,' I think now I probably would have said, 'No, let's consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists'....Could we have managed that threat by means other than a direct military intervention? Well, maybe we could have."<ref name="Vanity Fair">[http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612 Vanity Fair interview of several neoconservatives]</ref>

Perle is clear about where the buck stops.  "At the end of the day," he has said, "you have to hold the president responsible."<ref name="Vanity Fair" />

In spite of these changes, Perle is clear about where the buck stops.  "At the end of the day," he has said, "you have to hold the president responsible."<ref name="Vanity Fair" />

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