"I take satisfaction that we went to war with Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein. The rest is details." That's Laurie Mylroie quoted by Peter Bergen in an article he wrote in The Washington Monthly. According to Bergen, Mylroie was the most important expert on the Middle East, especially Iraq, that Richard Perle, John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, and the rest of the neocon architects of war with Iraq relied on to draw up their rosy conclusions for what life would be post-Saddam.

She has impressive credentials, having held faculty positions at Harvard and the U.S. Navy College.

Trouble is, she's a wingjob. Prior to Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, she was an apologist for the dictator. Since then, though, she's seen his hand in every major terrorist attack on the U.S., including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the Murray federal building in Oklahoma, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and, of course September 11, 2001.

She believes there's a vast conspiracy by thousands of investigators at State, the CIA, NSA -- even, I guess, to the thousands of soldiers searching for evidence in Iraq -- to hide Saddam's culpability since not one shred of reliable evidence has been found linking him to those attacks.

Fascinating. Deeply troubling. We'll be dealing with those "details" for years to come.