Perle got all feather ruffled and snapped back angrily, "What do you know about my family, first of all?" A funny response, if he wanted he could have rebuffed me by stating that he had family members dying. Then he claimed I was 'demogoging' and went on with the usual rhetoric about a 'volunteer army'.
The show's format doesn't allow follow up questions, but the host pressed him on the 'shared sacrifice' issue. He had trouble dealing with that one too, a hard start for a program on which he was trying to push his call for war. Really every member of the adminstration should be called on this war on terror hype in the end.
I don't mean to make the argument that *only* lower income men and women die in this war against Iraq, but it is a transparent fact that those dying or getting their limbs blown off are not the relatives of anyone in the Bush administration. How odd, such a major 'threat' is seen to exist, yet the leading war hawks' children stay home and choose not to fight.
I can put up the link to the exchange later if folks like.
steve