Apparently the charge to war is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Meet Michael Ledeen, “Iran Expert” and “Freedom Scholar” at the American Enterprise Institute. I’m not an expert on Iran myself, but wouldn’t you expect someone who claims to be such an expert to speak Farsi, and perhaps to have actually been in Iran at some point in his life? That’s too much to ask of the extreme-right-wing AEI, apparently, who have decided to put this raving insane fucking lunatic in charge of the dossier. After all the Institute’s “wisdom” is what got the US in Iraq in the first place…