MORON:

Heard on ABC's This Week:

George Will: Look, this is as Secretary Baker said to you, "a war of choice", and in order to encourage that choice to get made, some people oversold this - perhaps Perle and some others, who are actually not officeholders in the administration.

Michele Martin: Defense advisory board, George, he was the chairman of it.

George Will: I understand that - [but] it's an unpaid position and it's not setting policy.

From the newswire:

Perle offers to resign from U.S. Defense Policy Board

Noting criticism of a possible conflict of interest over his roles as corporate adviser and Defense Department consultant, Perle wrote to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, "As I cannot quickly or easily quell criticism of me based on errors of fact concerning my activities, the least I can do under these circumstances is to ask you to accept my resignation as chairman of the Defense Policy Board."

posted by Quiddity at 3/30/2003 10:04:00 AM