Remember When... "Saddam is much weaker than we think he is. He's weaker militarily. We know he's got about a third of what he had in 1991...But it's a house of cards. He rules by fear because he knows there is no underlying support. Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse at the first whiff of gunpowder". Richard Perle, neocon luminary and former chairman of the Defense Policy Board, in a PBS interview July 11, 2002: 500 soliders and 98,000,000 dollars later...I think I'm smelling a whiff of a different source from the oval office...