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	Flirting with Fascism
		Ledeen later made clear that he relished the ire of the left-wing establishment precisely because “De Felice was challenging the conventional wisdom of Italian Marxist historiography, which had always insisted that fascism was a reactionary movement.” What de Felice showed, by contrast, was that Italian fascism was both right-wing and revolutionary.
		The young Ledeen wrote that those who exalted the position of youth in the fascist revolution—like those who argued in favor of his beloved “universal fascism”—were committed to exporting Italian fascism to the whole world, an idea in which Mussolini was initially uninterested.
		As Ledeen shows, the Italian fascists expressed their desire “to tear down the old order” (his words from 2002) in terms that are curiously anticipatory of a famous statement in 2003 by the Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.
	www.amconmag.com /06_30_03/feature.html (979 words)

	Man of the World - The Boston Globe
		For Ledeen, early 20th-century European mass politics, rooted in a half-millennium-old cultural legacy, could serve as a wellspring for reinvigorating contemporary middle-class nationalism, particularly in the United States.
		The call for the United States to be at the forefront of a global crusade to spread democracy became one of the defining features of neoconservative ideology, a heady brew of American nationalism and an internationalist crusade for democracy that transcended traditional left-right divisions.
		Ledeen is especially contemptuous of leaders he regards as weak and corrupt, such as Bill Clinton.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/10/10/man_of_the_world (1354 words)

	Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: What do National Review, Rich Lowry, and the AEI have to say about Michael ...
		Michael Ledeen -- a so-called "Freedom Scholar" at the warmongering American Enterprise Institute and a Contributing Editor of National Review -- is one of the neocons included in the much-discussed Vanity Fair article publicized yesterday.
		Ledeen's pro-invasion article in NR was written in response to a television appearance two days earlier on Face the Nation by Brent Scowcroft, the former National Security Advisor for George Bush 41.
		Ledeen is literally obsessed with changing the governments in a whole host of countries that are hostile to Israel and/or the U.S., most particularly Iran.
	glenngreenwald.blogspot.com /2006/11/what-do-national-review-rich-lowry-and.html (2568 words)

	Michael Ledeen Cabal: Forged Documents Conspiracy
		Michael Ledeen, Rove’s "brain," is one of the leading advocates for a US attack on Iran.
		Ledeen already had a longstanding friendship with Francesco Pazienza, an Italian felon and forger who had been kicked out of the official Italian intelligence organization SISMI but who had found a new home in the renegade intelligence agency P-2 (Propaganda Due).
		Ledeen also was a personal friend of Pollari, who, like Ledeen, is a master of the card game bridge (Ledeen writes columns on it).
	www.infowars.com /articles/us/rove_ledeen_forged_documents.htm (1983 words)

	Michael Ledeen
		Michael Ledeen, an avid admirer of Machiavelli, argues in a piece published by National Review Online that the US must be “imperious, ruthless, and relentless” against the Muslim world until there has been “total surrender.” Any attempt on the part of the US to be “reasonable” or “evenhanded” will only empower Islamic militants, he asserts.
		Michael Ledeen contacts Mel Sembler, the US ambassador to Italy, and informs him that he will be traveling to Rome again (see December 9, 2001) to continue “his work” with the Iranians.
		Michael Ledeen, in an op-ed piece published by the Wall Street Journal, makes numerous charges against the Iranian government saying it supports terrorism and is on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=michael_ledeen (2864 words)

	Asia Times -Veteran neo-con adviser moves on Iran
		Michael A Ledeen, resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works closely with the better-known former chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle, has been a fixture of Washington's neo-conservative community for more than 20 years.
		Ledeen's right-wing Italian connections - including alleged ties to the P-2 Masonic Lodge that rocked Italy in the early 1980s - have long been a source of speculation and intrigue, but he returned to Washington in 1981 as "anti-terrorism" advisor to the new secretary of state, Al Haig.
		Despite Ledeen's assessment of the middleman as "one of the most honest, educated, honorable men I have ever known", he flunked four lie detector tests administered by the CIA, which had long warned that the Iranian "should be regarded as an intelligence fabricator and a nuisance".
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EF26Ak03.html (884 words)

	Michael Ledeen - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Ledeen was a Ronald Reagan appointee and is outspoken on U.S. foreign policy.
		Ledeen's daughter is Simone Ledeen, who went to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in October 2004 and ended up in a position of considerable responsibility.
		One of Ledeen's sons is Daniel Ledeen, who has written as an intern for The New York Sun and who gained brief notoriety when he ambushed Michael Moore at a press conference with a question alleging distribution of Fahrenheit 9/11 by Hezbollah.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Michael_Ledeen (3065 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Panorama \| Michael Ledeen
		Michael Ledeen has been branded an 'ultra neo-conservative' and is seen by his critics as the most sinister and radical of them all.
		Prof Ledeen is also a student of Machiavelli and has written a book about the Renaissance philosopher whose name has become synonymous with strong and brutal governments.
		Prof Ledeen is also believed to have the ear of the White House's current Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and has regular conversations with him.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/panorama/3031803.stm (295 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: FrontPage Interview: Michael Ledeen by Jamie Glazov
		Ledeen: Well, I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in the early sixties, when Wisconsin was the epicenter of the Left.
		Ledeen: I was Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for a bit more than a year, when Alexander Haig was Secretary, and my job was really "ambassador at small" (General Walters was ambassador at large, in all respects).
		Ledeen: Support the democratic revolutionaries in Iran and the Iranian-American broadcasters in California. Now, not tomorrow. That is the key to the entire war, in my opinion. There will never be peace in Iraq so long as the mullahs are in power in Tehran, and their favorite Assad reigns in Damascus.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11512 (2673 words)

	Mano Singham's Web Journal: Michael Ledeen - The ultimate revisionist
		Ledeen has also received widespread ridicule because he has been the most shameless in trying to rewrite history, and his feeble and transparent attempts have been quickly exposed.
		So not only was Ledeen for the war in August 2002, he so lacks basic human feeling for the lives of the people of that region that he wanted to turn it in to a "cauldon." But there's more.
		On August 19, 2002, Ledeen said "I think in the case of Iraq, the strongest argument for a preemptive strike is to say what I believe which is that we have in effect been at war with Iraq for quite a long time.
	blog.case.edu /mxs24/2006/11/08/michael_ledeen_the_ultimate_revisionist (1457 words)

	Ledeen on the Run, by Anthony Gancarski
		Ledeen's bow, I don't know what is. The feisty internationalist gives as good as he gets, however, making out the Ghorbanifar affair to be nothing so much as a tempest in a teapot.
		Michael Ledeen is a dangerous animal, a laptop bombardier, a thug with a hidden agenda and a security clearance.
		Ledeen is a risible presence on the American scene, and this column hopes that his enemies in Washington find a way to take him to task for reckless, foolish talk that will lead to the death of more Americans and further diffusion of the Administration's credibility.
	www.antiwar.com /gancarski/gan082203.html (1081 words)

	Michael Ledeen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Ledeen attributes the past disasters as errors of judgment and omission.
		Ledeen argues that under authoritarian dictatorships, power is vested in an individual or a ruling group, and therefore if the group or individual were no longer in power, change is more likely to happen.
		Ledeen makes a point that any credibility that the US could be dissipated if we do not support our words of revolution with action and support.
	www.eco.utexas.edu /Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/357Lsum_s2_MLedeen.html (764 words)

	The Next Hurrah: Michael Ledeen's "Wilderness of Mirrors"
		In this new formulation, Ledeen seems to be alluding to JJA as a way to boast of his own conspiracies to those in the know, while setting up straw man arguments to otherwise deny the conspiracy.
		Ledeen is still using JJA to make claims that are not defensible, similar to the way he used JJA to make totally unsubstantiated conspiracy claims.
		Ledeen seems to be using a literary device to document complex narratives and counternarratives.
	thenexthurrah.typepad.com /the_next_hurrah/2005/12/michael_ledeens.html (6125 words)

	Michael Ledeen, Superpundit \| TPMCafe
		One aspect of Ledeen's background that's interesting to note is that he lived in Rome in for a couple of years in the late 1970s, when he was employed by The New Republic.
		One of Ledeen's principal mentors was the German-born historian George Mosse.
		Ledeen was named as an unidicted co-conspirator in that trial.
	yglesias.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/10/25/214643/42 (2143 words)

	WorkingForChange-Michael Ledeen's dream, Mohamad ElBaradei's nightmare
		Ledeen, who used to work at the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council, was deeply involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair.
		Ledeen's interest, as it has been for a number of years, is "regime change" in Iran.
		Ledeen claimed that the administration had "done nothing to make the mullahs' lives more difficult, even though there is abundant evidence for Iranian involvement in Iraq, most including their relentless efforts to kill American soldiers."
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=20675 (1222 words)

	Right Web \| Individual Profile \| Michael A. Ledeen
		Ledeen is a risible presence on the American scene, and this column hopes that his enemies in Washington find a way to take him to task for reckless, foolish talk that will lead to the death of more Americans and further diffusion of the Administration's credibility." (9)
		Rhode is a protege of Michael Ledeen, who was a National Security Council consultant in the mid 1980s when he introduced Mr.
		In addition to his work with the American Enterprise Institute, Ledeen has supported or co-founded a number of advocacy groups pushing for a radical transformation of the Middle East, including the Coalition for Democracy in Iran, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, and Ziad Abdelnour's U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /ind/ledeen/ledeen_body.html (741 words)

	Everything You Need to Know About Michael Ledeen
		Notice that in the next quote, Ledeen’s presupposition is that only liberals are “corrupt.” He criticized Bob Dole and Jack Kemp in 1996 for refusing to attack Bill Clinton’s character during the campaign.
		It would be foolish for America’s political strategists and congressional leaders to ignore Michael Ledeen and his interpretation of Machiavelli.
		Ledeen speaks from the cutting edge of a group of men and women who desire nothing more than to reconstruct America in their own image.
	www.yuricareport.com /Dominionism/MichaelLedeen.html (918 words)

	Who is this Michael Ledeen?
		Ledeen a long time proponent of a “total war” in the middle East, was heavily involved in the Iran-contra affair meeting with the Islamic Republic representatives in Europe providing arms for hostage deals.
		Ledeen’s wife worked at the Pentagon office of Stephen Bryen who was investigated by the FBI for allegedly passing secrets to the government of
		Ledeen who is in the same mold as Wolfovitz, Bernard Lewis, and others have long been advocating change in the Islamic world by non-peaceful means.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/oct/1235.html (741 words)

	AlterNet: Who is Michael Ledeen?
		Most Americans have never heard of Michael Ledeen, but if the United States ends up in an extended shooting war throughout the Middle East, it will be largely due to his inspiration.
		Ledeen has become the driving philosophical force behind the neoconservative movement and the military actions it has spawned.
		Consequently, Ledeen has excoriated both the State Department and the United Nations for their preference for diplomatic solutions to conflict; and the CIA for equivocating on evidence that would condemn "America's enemies" and justify militant action.
	www.alternet.org /story/15860 (1041 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| Michael A. Ledeen
		Michael A. Ledeen, who holds the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, objects to being called a conservative.
		Ledeen was the first executive director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a group established in the mid-1970s with the objective of promoting close strategic relations between the United States and Israel, especially through military ties.
		Ledeen was also part of a secret National Security Council initiative directed by Elliott Abrams and Oliver North to aid the Nicaraguan contras by channeling U.S. arms through Israel to Iran and then rerouting the sales income to the contras.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1261 (1984 words)

	Roger L. Simon: Faster, Please
		Michael had driven all the way from DC with his son Marine Second Lieutenant Gabriel Ledeen.
		Second Lieutenant Ledeen is on the way to a Marine base in Hawaii and thence, at some point, to Afghanistan and/or Iraq.
		That said, I have more respect for "faster, please" than I had before, knowing that he has raised a daughter and now a son that are willing to set their privileges aside and put their lives on the line for their country.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/08/faster_please.php (968 words)

	Michael Ledeen
		Michael Ledeen, described by The Nation as "one of the most influential 'Jinsans' in Washington" has been calling for "total war" against "terror" -- with "regime change" for Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority.
		Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan administration official and author of The War Against the Terror Masters, said this conflict was part of a ``longer war'' and such terrorist-sponsors as Iran and Syria knew that.
		Mr Ledeen said, in the context of France, that he hoped they were.
	home.earthlink.net /~platter/neo-conservatism/ledeen.html (354 words)

	Antiwar.com Blog · Faster, Please!
		Michael Ledeen has been intent on turning the Middle East into a “cauldron” of revolution for years.
		This version names Michael Ledeen as the conduit for the report and indicates that former CIA officers Duane Clarridge and Alan Wolf were the principal forgers.
		While not yet naming Michael Ledeen, this report confirms that Fitzgerald has indeed received the unredacted report of the Italian parliamentary inquiry into the forgeries’ origin and that the forgers were associated with Chalabi and the INC as reported above.
	www.antiwar.com /blog/comments.php?id=P2452_0_1_0 (1191 words)

	austin indymedia: KARL ROVE, MICHAEL LEDEEN SPIES PROCURED FORGED NIGER DOCUMENTS
		The FBI is investigating Ledeen for procuring forged documents (shown here) on nonexistent WMD, which George Bush used to justify his war on Iraq.
		This document, which can be viewed at the Israeli site www.4law.co.il/Le838k.html, is the "evidence" on which George Bush sent almost two thousand young Americans and untold thousands of Iraqi civilians to their deaths.
		They included the daughter of the war's chief banshee -- Simone Ledeen, Michael's young daughter -- shown in the photo, greeting with an impish smile another occupier at the Baghdad airport -- getting ready to lord it over the Iraqis as she tries out her new MBA in working for the CPA.
	austin.indymedia.org /newswire/display/20765/index.php (2092 words)

	Michael Ledeen Demands 'Regime Change' in Iran
		This is the same Michael Ledeen, who, as a consultant to the Reagan-Bush Administration National Security Council in the mid-1980s, was a pivotal criminal figure in the Iran-Contra fiasco, covertly peddling weapons to the very Ayatollahs whom he is now plotting to overthrow.
		Ledeen gave the introduction for former British military intelligence operative and Princeton Professor Emeritus Bernard Lewis, who is the inventor of the idea of a "Clash of Civilizations," later popularized in a book by that name by Samuel Huntington.
		Ledeen maintained that he was just involved in a "research program" on Iran, which "by accident," turned into an "action program." However, it is notable that throughout this period, he was involved, by way of a firm called EATSCO, with former CIA Deputy Director for Plans Theodor Shackley, who was another pivotal Iran-Contra figure.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2003/3027ledeen_iran.html (2472 words)

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