Fox News host: Iraq war ‘the smartest thing George Bush did’

[AgingAmerican]

Raw Story

Commenting on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, Fox News host Eric Bolling claimed invading the country was former President George W. Bush’s most intelligent move.

Bolling said on Fox News’ The Five that the world already knew Saddam Hussein was a “bad guy” because the Iraqi dictator had provoked the Gulf war by attempting to invade Kuwait.

“We had to take Saddam Hussein out,” he added. “We had just been punched in the face with 9/11, the Afghan war was starting up, we had to do what we did. I think it was the smartest thing George Bush did. He restored confidence in America.”

The Bush administration had alleged Iraq was an imminent threat because it was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, a claim that turned out to be completely false.

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These FOX news types are a dangerous combination of evil and stupid. Unfreaking real!!

[sakabatou]

1. Soooo out of touch.

[bluedigger]

2. Low bar.

[genjac3213]

3. Not surprising

This is not saying much given that Mr. Bush didn't do many smart things in office.

[Daniel537]

4. Lol, some things never change.

Fox will always be neo-con central. They just can't help it. Even the token libertardian on the show Greg Gutfeld said the war was a good idea. Total loons. Remember the stories they used to have about "the good news from Iraq"? Apparently the US govt. does a good job rebuilding a country overseas but can't do it here at home. Fuckwads.

[Eleanors38]

5. God, I don't want to imagine the dumbest thing.

[Kalidurga]

7. You read my mind...

I really don't want to see what his stupidest thing was either. NCLB was pretty stupid, but I don't think that killed anyone.

[sofa king]

15. You don't have to. We're living it.

[Life Long Dem]

6. "We had to do it..."

"because we had to do it". Got that?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

8. Isn't That Like Saying Moe Was The Smartest Stooge?

But..........we HAD to take Saddam Hussein out! He was either going to attack us with all those weapons he didn't have, or he was going to give them to the al Qaeda terrorists who he hated and who hated him back!

See, now it all makes perfect sense.

[fadedrose]

9. If that was the smartest, what in the hell was the dumbest? nt

[rustydog]

10. If this illegal, immoral lie was the smartest thing Dubya did

WTF was the dumbest?


OOP, should read ALL replies first!

[tularetom]

11. There is a possibility that he is correct

Bush didn't do very much and everything he did was pretty stupid so the bar is actually quite low.

So a case could be made that the Iraq war, clusterfuck that it was, was indeed the smartest thing he ever did.

Or a close second to choking on a pretzel or falling off a segway.

[Trajan]

12. Eric Bolling's commentary ...

Some off the dumbest BS you have ever heard ...

[dkf]

13. Well when contemplating which was more stupid, the Iraq War or the Bush Tax cuts...

I might almost agree.

At least we can leave Iraq. Apparently the Bush cuts are forever.

[hegemony]

14. on fox news

Fox news on twitter today . . .
http://realtweeter.com/6812086/fox-news

[apocalypsehow]

16. Oh, good grief.

[Rstrstx]

17. If by "best" he means "worst", then I agree, although...

..it might diminish some of his other stellar achievements like Katrina, the tax cuts/debt, etc

[jmowreader]

18. Not even close.

The smartest thing Bush ever did was to ignore the 8/6/01 PDB that said Osama was about to attack inside the U.S. He wasn't presidenting very well and would have been asked to resign By ignoring it, the attacks that followed gave him almost limitless power.

[HughBeaumont]

19. Using "Smart" and "Bush" in the same sentence isn't allowed.

So already, Eric Bowling fails.