"That's neoconservative pseudo-intellectual Michael Ledeen"

Seems to me neo-cons are about to be pronounced dead. Or have they passed already? Where was Ledeen writing from?

The term "pseudo" is thoroughly unnecessary between "neoconservative" and "intellectual." It's redundant, and already understood "as is" by any reasonable person.

"So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well-supplied; that the strategy is clear; that the coalition is strong; ..." - Bush 2002.

I have to tell you, I'm really confused. After 9|11 we were told that Osama was behind the attacks. Then, bin Laden came out and said that he wasn't. I swear I'm not making that up. Here's the CNN story.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/

He never directly claimed responsibility for the attacks until October 2004.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2004/10/29/binladen_message041029.html

After the CIA and special forces ran up in Afghanistan to get him and the military failed to back them up - a result of internal feuding between Tom Ridge and Donald Rumsfeld* - we, at Rumsfeld's behest turned our attention to Iraq.

* Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/

Bin Laden fell out of favor with the Bush Administration in speeches as Iraq became the new front for the War on Terror. Now he's used as a prop to scare us.

So I have to admit. I'm confused. Did Osama plan 9|11? Why does it look like Bush and Cheney have gained the most since 9|11? Even doubling the sum for bin Laden from $25 to $50 million I still don't understand the logic. Why is it so hard to feel comfortable in knowing what happened on 9|11?

The events of that day feel long on mythology and short on truth.

My snapshot on our department's website is several years old - guess I'm dead or they'd've done a new one.

'Osama died today, or was it yesterday, it doesn't matter...'

Bushit has kept him "alive" over the past five or six years by ineptitude, hate, fear, and placing politics over the safety of the USA. Heck of a job Bushy...

Impeach. The rest is just a waste of time.

National Review? You mean these guys?

(article on NR cruise "Ship of Fools")

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2766040.ece

"neoconservative intellectual" is an oxymoron. Nobody with an actual working intellect would ever come up with the crap that these bozos do.

I am "conservative" on a variety of issues (although I don't believe these terms have any meaning.). Michael Ledeen goes way beyond "neoconservative intellectual:" He would be technically closer to a universal fascist.