I have been watching C-Span's presentation of the American Enterprize Institute's press spin of the war in Iraq. Resident Fellow, Richard Perle, famously just resigned as its leader due to the discovery of some very damaging conflict of interests, held forth about the wonders of "our" war and expounded vociferously on how "we" were going to rebuild Iraq cheaply and easily without the help of those states who held veto over "our" desires to kill and maim in Iraq in our quest to manage the hordes in the mid-east. Did I mention Richard is Jewish in his religious beliefs? Yes, indeed, he sees a middle east dominated by Likud like strong men. Joshua Murvchik is listed as a Resident Scholar on his little name plate. He is embarassingly NOT any kind of scholar. These are the people who are telling dubbie what to do. I see David Corn, with The Nation is in attendance. At least David will tell us the truth of this Right Wing Group's meedting in his next issue.