Barbara Walters gives a bizarre, seemingly unnecessary video statement to ABCNews.com regarding yesterday's heated debate between Rosie and Elisabeth Hasselbeck over the war in Iraq.

Wanna see something even more unnecessary? ABCNews.com's follow-up report on the feud entitled "'View' War of Words Prompts Question: What Can Americans Say About the War?" — perhaps the "war" wasn't manufactured for ratings, as Barbara insists, but the network's marketing of it certainly has been.