In an interview he gave "Vanity Fair" that was excerpted in an article appearing in the 4November 2006 "Los Angeles Times", he denied having a role in the planning of the war. He is reported to have told "Vanity Fair", "I'm getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war." This is not congruent with his signing of the PNAC letter in 1998. "I was in favor of bringing down Saddam. Nobody said, 'Go design the campaign to do that.' I had no responsibility for that." The same "Los Angeles Times" article reports that Perle now believes that his advocacy of the Iraq war was wrong.