Misogyny: The First Refuge of A Scoundrel

Mona finds that idiot-even-by-neocon-standards Michael Ledeen is now claiming to have opposed the Iraq War despite calling it “desperately-needed and long overdue.” And it gets worse. In his roundup of the various rats bailing from the good ship Bush Doctrine now that it’s firmly lodged at the bottom of the ocean, Roger uncovers Ledeen burbling this:

Ask yourself who the most powerful people in the White House are. They are women who are in love with the president: Laura [Bush], Condi, Harriet Miers, and Karen Hughes.

And according to Ann Althouse, they all have breasts! Clearly, Iraq would have worked out fine if it wasn’t for those meddling bitches. If only Dick Cheney had even a fraction of the influence over American foreign policy that Harriet Miers enjoys, Iraq would look like Switzerland right now. (This would seem to be the neocon-blame-avoidance equivalent of the Christianist who explains how Ted Haggart’s wife let herself go and hence turned him over to the Gay, personally arranged a meeting in a seedy hotel to buy meth, and then personally put his penis in a male hooker’s mouth.)

…Glenn finds a 2002 op-ed in which Ledeen wrote “Saddam Hussein is a terrible evil, and President Bush is entirely right in vowing to end his reign of terror . . . . If we come to Baghdad, Damascus and Tehran as liberators, we can expect overwhelming popular support.” That’s some vociferous opposition! Via Greg Djerejian, who notes some classic Instahackery here.