MEET THE "GENTLEMAN"

...who lied to drag us into the Iraq war, promoting lies about weapons of mass destruction and promising that Iraqis would welcome the American invaders with open arms.

...who promoted the invasion, even though he later conceded that "international law...would have required us to leave Saddam Hussein alone." (Guardian, Nov. 20, 2003)

...who personally profited from war spending, making several hundred thousand from the death and destruction he helped organize.

MEET RICHARD PERLE, WAR CRIMINAL

* "One of the most influential people in the civilian defense policy establish-ment," according to the Financial Times, Perle "spent a decade lobbying" for the Iraq war, said Salon.com.

* A leader of infamous far-right "neo-con's," he was the chair of the influencial Defense Policy Board until a scandal about his many dubious business dealings with military contractors. Perle is currently pushing a book promoting war against Syria and Iran, and a "Cuban style" blockade of North Korea.

* Perle is also a top executive with Hollinger Digital Inc, which controls the rabidly pro-war and anti-Palestinian Chicago Sun-Times and Jerusalem Post newspapers.

* A former Likud Party policy advisor who co-authored a military expansionist paper entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," Perle was an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. He is a resident fellow at the far-right American Enterprise Institute.

* According to the Washington Post, "Perle has been an intellectual force behind the war on Iraq. His recent pro-blems emerged from reports describing his ties to companies that have business before the Defense Department."

* "Most notably, he agreed to represent Global Crossing, a telecommunications company that had sought his help in getting the Pentagon's support for its proposed sale to a foreign firm controlled by investors from China and Singapore. Under the arrangement, Perle was to be paid a $125,000 retainer and would earn another $600,000 if the deal is approved by a government review panel that includes Rumsfeld, the New York Times reported last Friday." (Washington Post, 3/28/03)

* Recently Perle lobbied to have the Air Force lease tanker planes from Boeing at an exorbinant price, but according to the Financial Times, "Mr. Perle did not disclose that Boeing had committed to invest $20m in his venture capital fund, Trireme Partners, in mid-2002. The investment marked one of the largest early stakes taken in the fund by a corporate partner." (December 5, 2003)

PROTEST Perle's visit to Chicago
5 pm, Wednesday, January 14
at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations event
at the Knickerbocker Hotel
Michigan Ave. & Walton (930 N. Michigan)

Protest sponsored by the Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism. For more information e-mail CCAWR (at) aol.com or call 888.471.0874