Barnes: Obama not "strong on national security" because he opposed war "when the entire world believed" Saddam had WMD

On the October 6 edition of Fox News' The Beltway Boys, co-host and Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes claimed that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is "not in quite as strong a position on the war in Iraq as he really thinks he is." He explained that when Obama delivered his 2002 speech against going to war with Iraq, "it was back in a time when the entire world believed Saddam Hussein in Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that he would probably be willing to use them himself at some time or pass them along to terrorists who would use them. And yet, Barack Obama was against going to the war at that point." According to Barnes: "I don't think that shows that he is very strong on national security, which he needs to be."

BARNES: Yeah, I doubt that she'll pick him. You know, I've thought for a long time that Obama's not in quite as strong a position on the war in Iraq as he really thinks he is. Remember, when he famously came out against the war, it was back in a time when the entire world believed that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that he would probably be willing to use them himself at some time or pass them along to terrorists who would use them. And yet, Barack Obama was against going to the war at that point. I don't think that shows that he is very strong on national security, which he needs to be. But that argument's not going to be used against him in the Democratic primaries. It would, however, by Republicans in a general election....[Open in new window]

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No wonder Barnes is a 'pundit'. He's so smart.

Let's translate the above Perle (sic) of wisdom into plain English:

"Obama was wrong because he was right."

(See this week's THIS MODERN WORLD cartoon for more on this kind of neocon imbecility [Open in new window]).

FOX NEWS NETWORK could just slowly morph into FOX COMEDY NETWORK without very many people noticing.

I quess the difference would be the deaths that FNN makes possible by convincing dorks & morons to vote for war criminals & monsters.

In short, whatever a neocon says, believe the opposite & the world will be a better place.

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