Must read (& I almost never say that.)

Fred Hiatt, Michael Ledeen and the "bomb Iran crazies"
By Glenn Greenwald

From UPDATE II

...one can only capture a small portion of Michael Ledeen's madness in one post. Hence, there is no reference here to the article Digby dredges up in which Ledeen suggested we would need to wage war against France and Germany because they are in league with Al Qaeda and Iran to destroy us; nor to his article despicably arguing in favor of the invasion of Iraq: "One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today."

Nor does it reference Ledeen's patently false claim last year that he opposed the Iraq war when he repeatedly cheered it on. It also says nothing about his lurking around (at least) the forged Niger documents from Italy, and nothing about his role in the AIPAC/espionage scandal.

Nor does this post even mention what Jonah Goldberg approvingly called "The Ledeen Doctrine," whereby Ledeen argued: "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." This is the Leading Iran Expert among neconservatives. And it is a person who remains Deeply Serious in the Fred Hiatt World...[Open in new window]
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When the phrase ' batshit crazy' hits the slang dictionaries the entry should just be a picture of Michael Ledeen.
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