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From Disinfopedia (edited to 3 paragraphs):
"From creative destruction to total war, the guiding beliefs of the most aggressive foreign policymakers in the George Walker Bush administration may originate in the works of Michael Ledeen.
"Ledeen’s ideas are repeated daily by such figures as Richard Cheney, Donald H. Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. He basically believes that violence in the service of the spread of democracy is America’s manifest destiny.
"With a group of other conservatives, Ledeen recently set up the Center for Democracy in Iran (CDI), an action group focusing on producing regime change in Iran.
"'No one I know wants to wage war on Iran and Syria, but I believe there is now a clear recognition that we must defend ourselves against them,' Ledeen wrote.
His attacks against the CIA and the State Department have contributed to the exclusion of these intelligence bodies from any effective decision making on Iraq. His attacks on Iran, even when Iran was assisting the United States, helped keep the Bush administration from seeking any rapprochement with Tehran. Were it in Ledeen's hands, we would invade Iran today."
Ledeen is the author of "Universal Fascism" and an admiring biography of Gabrielle D'Annunzio, founder of the Italian Fascist Party. His daughter Simone works for the Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority.
Is taking pictures in NYC a cassus belli?
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