Personally I can't think of a better winner for the Statist's Prize Patrol.

If anyone lives up to these backslappers' addage of 'War is Peace' its Barry Satoro.

1. He increased federal military spending in the budget to new gargantuan heights

2. He increased battle ready units in Iraq - through the use of private mercenaries...

3. He moved federal troops from Iraq to Afghan - lending to the deadliest year to date in this unending and illegal occupation based on proven lies

4. He commandeered unmanned drone strikes into Pakistan, killing civilians now in the thousands

5. He willingly reiterates the Iranian fiction of nukes as a pretext for our next excuse for genocide

6. He shielded from the get-go the populist calls for war crimes investigations of torture by the past admin - and maintained most of the posts of those accused.

7. He's not only maintained the police state precedent initiated at Gitmo, but enhanced and applauded its true intentions - which has nothing to do with boogeymen from far off caves - nearly all of which have been released free of charges.

Let's give this guy credit where it's due.

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