Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
Today, neocon Michael Ledeen, who has a newish blog called (what else?) Faster, Please! at (where else?) Pajamas Media, claims, “I oppose military action against Iran…”
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Riiiiight.
That’s why on Xmas Day he was wringing his hands that:

We can only win the war—the real war, the regional-or-maybe-even-global war—if we stop [...]

Thoreau takes my “Problem with neoconservatives is that everybody has them” adage and runs with it, but buries it in comments:
Iranian Rumsfeld:
“Look, you go to jihad with the naval graffiti teams that you have, not the naval graffiti teams that you would like to have.  Did we equip the Mahdi Army?  Yes.  Did we send [...]

According to a guest post at NewsHog, “The Chinese characters for neo-conservatives (火神派) stand for Fire-God Faction.” I propose we strenuously avoid trying to disprove this, because it is way too awesome!!

Gareth Porter has some interesting claims about the famous – and famously disputed – Iranian Grand Bargain fax of 2003 (pdf). The cast of characters grows larger, more famous and, best of all, more colorful:
[Trita] Parsi revealed that the document was delivered specifically to Rove, in an exclusive interview with IPS. Within [...]