Reply #18: Digby has a great dissection of the Barnes article here:

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Nutty Buddy

by digby


I had read excerpts of Fred Barnes' column describing his meeting with the president and fellow conservative sycpophants, but I didn't get a chance to read the whole thing until today. The codpiece is full to bursting even as the mind is shrinking. :rofl:

Inside the Oval Office President Bush gives journalists a "heads up" about the mid-term elections, among other things.


FRED BARNES:

WE NOW KNOW WHY the Bush administration hasn't made the capture of Osama bin Laden a paramount goal of the war on terror. Emphasis on bin Laden doesn't fit with the administration's strategy for combating terrorism. Here's how President Bush explained this Tuesday: "This thing about . . . let's put 100,000 of our special forces stomping through Pakistan in order to find bin Laden is just simply not the strategy that will work."

Rather, Bush says there's a better way to stay on offense against terrorists. "The way you win the war on terror," Bush said, "is to find people and get them to give you information about what their buddies are fixing to do." In a speech last week, the president explained how this had worked--starting with the arrest and interrogation of 9/11 planner Khalid Sheik Muhammad--to break up a terrorist operation that was planning post-9/11 attacks on America.

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