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== Iraq ==
== Iraq ==
[[Image:Out.png|right|thumb|Richard Perle as a teenager with his parents.]]
Perle has a longstanding interest in the problem of [[Iraq]] and Saddam Hussein. In 1998, he co-signed a letter from [[PNAC]] to then-President [[Bill Clinton]]; it called on the President to "implement[] a strategy for removing Saddam's regime from power" and noted that "[t]his will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts."<ref name="PNAC">[http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm Letter to Bill Clinton from the Project for the New American Century]</ref> The letter also argued that [[Saddam Hussein]]'s development of WMDs would result in grave risk to [[Israel]], American troops in the region, moderate Arab states, and the world's oil supply.
Perle has a longstanding interest in the problem of [[Iraq]] and Saddam Hussein. In 1998, he co-signed a letter from [[PNAC]] to then-President [[Bill Clinton]]; it called on the President to "implement[] a strategy for removing Saddam's regime from power" and noted that "[t]his will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts."<ref name="PNAC">[http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm Letter to Bill Clinton from the Project for the New American Century]</ref> The letter also argued that [[Saddam Hussein]]'s development of WMDs would result in grave risk to [[Israel]], American troops in the region, moderate Arab states, and the world's oil supply.