Writes C.J. Watson: "Look at the bad penny who has turned up again: 'Perle Linked to Kurdish Oil Plan.'" Of course, the man Chris Manion has dubbed Richer Perle has long ripped off the US taxpayer through contracts from the wars he's promoted. He's the very model of a merchant of death, living it up in his mansion in the south of France, built on a foundation of dead bodies.