Iran Contra Neo-Con Says Osama bin Laden Died in Iran a Year Ago....

radio4progressives

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Mon Mar-20-06 01:49 PM
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Iran Contra Neo-Con Says Osama bin Laden Died in Iran a Year Ago....

Excerpt from Raw Story's Larisa Alexandrovna's Conversations with Machiavelli's Ghost, Part 3

The most striking comment Ledeen makes is in reference to Osama bin Laden as having died in Iran late last year, echoing already long circulated accounts that bin Laden has been presumed dead for some time now.

In describing the Iraq war, Ledeen explains that he had strongly advised against the plan, saying that the invasion of Iraq was the "Wrong war, wrong time, wrong way, wrong place."

Ledeen also describes National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley as in a state of permanent "deputy" status. Hadley was Deputy National Security Advisor under now Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Ledeen provides a rather telling comparison of the Hadley/Rice relationship by using a precursor:

"I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently," said Ledeen.

Other highlights include Ledeen's definition of the controversial concept of "Creative Destruction," as well as his hope for a bipartisan foreign policy solution in which different view points would stop "borking" one another: "We can't keep on Borking each other, describing one another in ugly caricatures, and refusing to think through what are, after all, often very difficult issues," says Ledeen.

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Conversations_with_Machiavellis_Ghost_Part_3_0320.html

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zbdent

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Mon Mar-20-06 01:59 PM
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1. So, who's been doing his audios?

(I've always wondered about that . . .)

Sounds like how V.C. Andrews is "ghost written" . . .

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radio4progressives

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Mon Mar-20-06 02:15 PM
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2. Like minds think a like! I've been thinking he's dead since 2001..

Edited on Mon Mar-20-06 02:15 PM by radio4progressives

but then, i'm just a coincidence theorist.. ;)

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bushmeister0

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Mon Mar-20-06 02:52 PM
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3. Disabled danger says so too.

Curt Weldon got that little tidbit from, Ali, his "source" in Paris, whose buddy if Manucher Ghorbanifar, the very trustworthy arms dealer who Ledeen worked with in Iran/Contra.

See: http://imnotworthy.blogspot.com/2006/03/alis-believe-it-or-not.html

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zbdent

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Mon Mar-20-06 03:21 PM
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4. I thought Repukes didn't trust the French

with anything . . .

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Mon Mar-20-06 06:43 PM
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5. Interesting

It is interesting to me that he decided to take Kerry's phrase (Wrong war, wrong time, wrong way, wrong place). Am I the only one who think the neo-cons are just trying to clear their names now that it has been proven that Iraq has become a complete mess up? I tend to think that these people were cheering for the war at the beginning and now are only trying to salvage whatever part of their movement they can in order to bring it back years from now.

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Mon Mar-20-06 06:45 PM
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6. Ladeen is evil scum! n/t

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