FRED BARNES: OIL IS #1, AL QAEDA NOT SO MUCH

(h/t Priscilla at the Newshounds)

Just like Alan Greenspan, Fred Barnes told us¹ the truth about Iraq: it really is all about the oil.

BARNES: One of the absurd notions is that Afghanistan is more important that Iraq. Here is Afghanistan, this backwater, where the al- Qaeda may be holed up in the mountains, but--

HUME: A lot are across the border in Pakistan, anyway.

BARNES: That's true too. And that backwater of geo-strategical importance, really, is more important than Iraq? This country right in the middle of the Middle East, a strategically important country with all this oil? If we lose, it we lose everything. Afghanistan won't even matter then at all.

¹Fox News Network
April 23, 2008 Wednesday
SHOW: FOX SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME 6:40 PM EST
Political Headlines
BYLINE: Brit Hume, Fred Barnes, Mara Liasson, Mort Kondracke
SECTION: NEWS; Domestic
LENGTH: 2037 words