Fred Barnes is a fucking moron

Via Media Matters, the estimable editor of The Weekly Standard:

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.

Jeez, with such a steaming pile of specious reasoning before us, where to begin? First, not everyone believed Saddam was this imminent threat that must be dealt with RIGHT NOW. That bit o’ thinking was ginned up by Perle, Wolfowitz and the rest of the “intellectuals” at PNAC, the Heritage Foundation, etc. Second, concluding that Saddam would pass these weapons to terrorists was pure conjecture and/or wishful thinking used to justify the war. Fred, dumbass warmongering cheerleader that he is, dutifully touted this line as well as any old thing to make war more likely. So fuck you Fred for presupposing that the rest of us are that stupid and gullible. Furthermore, declaring as weakness Obama’s unwillingness to be hoodwinked by the lies that precipitated the war is in itself weak. I give Obama credit for not being a sucker. He saw this disaster for what it was, folly dressed in faux humanitarianism and fueled by deceit and ego. Given that Iraq is such an utter clusterfuck, his national security cred, in comparison to Chickenhawk Caucus (to which Fred is a member in good standing), is pretty solid in my book.