Libertarian column tears neo-con "journalist" a new one

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http://www.lp.org/blogs/andrew-davis/fred-barnes-and-the-legacy-of-bush
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Deconstructing_a_neocon_shill_who_defends_Bush_s_l egacy

Goddamn, the neo-cons just can't freaking learn.

"Second, enhanced interrogation of terrorists. Along with use of secret prisons and wireless eavesdropping, this saved American lives. How many thousands of lives? We'll never know."

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Fred Barnes wrote this.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519NS7GTXPL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Chief-Inside-Controversial-Presidency/dp/0307336506

The Weekly Standard executive editor and Fox News personality preaches to the Crawford choir in this analysis-cum-tribute to the Bush presidency. Readers who keep pace with current events will find little new in Barnes's take on the president's policies, but what's instructive are the surprising glimpses into the personality of a man Barnes celebrates as an "insurgent leader" who's "an alien in the realm of the governing class" that despises all things Washington and revels in his status as "a revolutionary with a revolutionary vision." Indeed, the capital is a locale he regards as a "job site" at best and a "detention center" at worst where the increasingly Republican-populated Washington establishment is "reactionary" (and "Bush ignores them"), and the national press corps "reminded Bush of the liberal students he detested in his years at Yale."

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