Ledeen: ‘Sheehan-Reid-Obama-Clinton Cult’ Is ‘Disrupting Military Funerals’ Nationwide

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Ledeen: ‘Sheehan-Reid-Obama-Clinton Cult’ Is ‘Disrupting Military Funerals’ Nationwide

National Review Contributing Editor and prominent neoconservative Michael Ledeen writes on The Corner today about a funeral in Texas for a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq:

"In many places around the country, members of the Sheehan-Reid-Obama-Clinton cult disrupt military funerals, but I doubt they would attempt to perform their disgusting ritual in a fine place as described here."

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Ledeen’s effort to smear people by associating them with a vicious hate group is particularly notable since Ledeen is an adviser to Karl Rove:

"One is Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, whose specialties include terrorism and the Middle East. His latest book, according to the official summary, asserts that “America must topple the regimes of the terror masters to eliminate the threat of terrorism.”

The two met after Bush’s election. “He said, ‘Anytime you have a good idea, tell me,’ ” Ledeen said. Every month or six weeks, Ledeen will offer Rove “something you should be thinking about.” More than once, Ledeen has seen his ideas, faxed to Rove, become official policy or rhetoric.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/ledeen-cult/

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Mike Ledeen is a whore who doesn't want you to pay attention to that fact. He's an attention deficit whore.

[mod mom]

1. Isn't this dude in jail yet?

[OHdem10]

21. Fred Phelps, RR and Homophob is the only

group I have heard about at Soldiers Funerals.

He is on a mission to disrupt because he does not believe
Gays should be in the Military.

It makes no sense.

PHelps is a RWer.

[grasswire]

2. more than a whore -- he's a traitor

He is high on the list of traitors. Beware of men carrying tar and feathers.

[depakid]

10. Mme Defarge's will not forget

[acmavm]

20. Yeah, he is. He had some help from his good friends

Lawrence Franklin and Harold Rhode of the Office of Special Plans, SISMI agent Nicolo Pollari, and Manoucher Ghorbanifar.

Just a few names to look up and get an education on just how traitorous little Dougie Feith and the boys really are.

[WCGreen]

3. Ooopps....

One member left the cult....

[Turbineguy]

4. Ledeen's problems is

there aren't enough people dying over there.

[BOSSHOG]

5. I would rather one disrupt a funeral then cause it

ledeen, another sad disgusting constitution hating fucker who does not deserve his constitutional liberties. Because of him and his kind, there are funerals for our servicepersonnel and what's he do, be a typical conservative and whine about the actions of others.

[kevinbgoode]

6. There is nothing patriotic about this level of neo-con trash. . .

And it is about time that people stand up and recognize that you do not serve the American public - or this country - but willfully and intentionally engaging in the practice of deliberate deception for the purpose of manipulating power.

The American people should also understand something very inherent in the approach of cynical, deliberate liars - that they have no regard for the very people who are persuaded to vote for them, read their material, or support their cause. The moment they produce another lie with the hope that it will be repeated over and over again as if the truth can be substituted by a fantasy, they are showing the American people a level of disdain and disrespect so deeply offensive that they should be considered hostile to the freedom of the people of the United States.

Neo-cons always rush to the statement about their "freedom of speech" rights in these cases, claiming that their right to manufacture falsehoods is constitutionally protected. And it is. However, the propensity and the depth of this deception is so inherent to the Right's very movement that it cannot continue to be left unchallenged or politely addressed. Any American who was raised with the notion that freedom is best preserved because of integrity, should realize that those who deceive have none. . .and no character. . .and no morality. And that they are the real enemies to freedom because they will stop at nothing to distort the truth. In their fascist parallel universe, their attempts to make their twisted imagination a reality is clearly an attempt to destroy the United States, our institutions, our press, and our national identity and replace it with an overly-hyped "religious" dogma, a worship of the military, and a brutal instigation of laws and policies which seek to oppress any citizenry who expresses an opinion that questions their spin.

We've seen this happening over and over and over again these past few years, on every level from science to global warming to election reform to persecution of gays to foreign affairs to demonizing "liberals" to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We have had plenty of ominous warnings.

[AnnieBW]

7. What is he smoking?

I've NEVER heard of any anti-war people protesting soldiers' funerals. You would think that we would have heard something about this before now. Maybe he's confusing Phelps and his ilk for "liberals"? Ick.

[Cameron27]

9. I had the same thought.

He's probably trying to purposely confuse Phelps with the anti-war protesters, that's his style.

[Rob H.]

8. If he's REALLY upset at the disruption of military funerals

He should direct his ire at those Westboro Baptist freakazoids who are members of Fred Phelps' group of heartless fuckwits.

[onenote]

11. Ledeen: offers "correction" that doesn't really correct

After his initial statement (the one quoted in the OP), Ledeen posted the following "correction" that somehow equates the use of caskets as a prop to illustrate the fact that soldiers are dying with "mock funerals" and somehow makes it seem that its not that different from disrupting actual funerals.

"Correction
Correction: I was mistaken about the cultists at military funerals. The demonstrators were from a disgusting anti-gay church. The anti-war cultists staged their own mock funerals, led by Sheehan's followers at Code Pink." 5/29 1:09 PM


http://corner.nationalreview.com/

[kevinbgoode]

12. That is a rather HUGE "mistake"

for a "journalist." His work should be pulled.

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Ledeen - another dumb-fuck think tank denizen

That asshole claims to be an expert on Iran, but he won't even bother to learn Farsi, the principal language of Iran!

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/01/15/ledeen/index.html

(snip)
Q. Do you speak Farsi, the language of Iran?

A. No. That's why God invented translators.
(snip)

:grr:

[ripple]

14. You would think the guy would have a problem

with the growing number of militaty funerals, not with the people trying to prevent more of them. I suppose that's too logical for a neocon chickenhawk, though.

What a piece of shit. :puke:

[Hersheygirl]

15. Let's see if I read this correctly,

according to this half wit, we will have to topple the regimes of the terror masters to eliminate the threat of terrorism. OK, I guess than that we will be at war for, oh I'd say, the next couple hundred years. I guess he just doesn't understand how history works. We need to send him a history book. There has been terrorism around since the beginning of man and it will continue till man ultimately destroys himself. I don't want to make a joke about this, but with these delusional lunatics in charge that might be sooner than we think.:nuke:

[venable]

16. an apologist for war, torture, murder, theft

Ledeen is one of the worst americans ever born.

A record of his droppings is a book of evil hours.

He is a dangerous man and a very sick man. and the NR pays him.

[grasswire]

17. not just an apologist...

....but an actor in the heinous crimes and dastardly betrayals himself.

[venable]

19. I stand corrected n/t

[SOS]

18. He's the only Bushie who is openly fascist

Flirting with Fascism
Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than from the American Right.
http://www.amconmag.com/06_30_03/feature.html

Even though it's from the American Conservative, it's a well-researched look at Ledeen's lifelong admiration of Mussolini and Italian fascism.
He's Rove's foreign policy advisor!