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# Trump Slams Bush: Iraq Invasion "Single Worst Decision Ever Made"

President Trump slammed former President George W. Bush over the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq - referring to it as "the single worst decision ever made," and that it was comparable to "throwing a big fat brick into a hornet's nest."

Speaking to a group of GOP donors at a Mar-a-Lago closed door lunch and fundraiser, Trump also mocked Bush's intellect: "Here we are, like the dummies of the world, because we had bad politicians running our country for a long time," reported CNN - which obtained leaked audio from the event.

"That was Bush. Another real genius. That was Bush," Trump joked. "That turned out to be wonderful intelligence. Great intelligence agency there."

In the past, Trump has been notoriously critical of the decision to invade Iraq, slamming Jeb Bush during the 2016 primaries over his brother's decision to invade.

> Jeb, why did your brother attack and destabalize the Middle East by attacking Iraq when there were no weapons of mass destruction? Bad info?

> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2015

> "@FlightAJ: Hey @realDonaldTrump what is your view on George Bush?" He got us into Iraq instead of making America great again. Not good!

> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 17, 2014

> We spent TWO TRILLION DOLLARS in Iraq and got NOTHING. Now we are going back and will again get NOTHING because our leaders are clueless!

> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2014

Bush snarks back

Former President Bush - despite rarely criticizing President Obama - only took a month into Trump's presidency to begin tossing barbs. Following Trump's controversial Executive Order banning travel from several countries associated with terrorism, Bush 43 said: "I don’t like the racism and I don’t like the name-calling and I don’t like the people feeling alienated. Nobody likes that."

Last October, Bush indirectly slammed Trump at a policy seminar in New York - telling the audience “We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty... We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism.”

“Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children,” said Bush. “The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them.”

Trump and the Bush family have had a good relationship - as neither George W. Bush, his father former President George H.W. Bush, or Jeb Bush endorsed him during the 2016 election.

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Bes Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:07 Permalink

hahahaha!!!

but he continues to want to give the MIC

$700,000,000,000+ a year

and god knows how much more off the books....

and he still hasn't pulled troops out of anywhere

and he is expanding and keeping Guantanamo Bay open

what a joke

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cossack55 Bes Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:09 Permalink

Seems he forgot about war criminal Cheney

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BaBaBouy cossack55 Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:11 Permalink

Yup, Its a great skill to be able to Speak from BOTH Sides of the mouth at the same Time ~

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Pandelis BaBaBouy Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:16 Permalink

PIPELINES

somebody pls tell trumpi it is about PIPELINES (or potentially the biggest ever TO BE discovered oil fields in the entire universe like in the case of Cyprus)... JP Morgan guy fiasco with bitcoin (what did he say, he was going to fire anyone trading bitcoin), Trump too late to jump on board with ISIS game (aka PIPELINES; what did he say he had a plan for Eastern Ghouta ... yeah right tell that to Kushner if you got the balls) ... where do these guys live? none tells them anything ...

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toady Pandelis Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:17 Permalink

Gotta say... I agree 100%

This still haughts me... all these years later, it still pops in my head, "why"?

I run through various scenarios, for the oil? for the pipelines? for the Kurds? for the Sunnis? for the Jews? All minor possibilities, but none that make sense in the end.

Certainly not for the American people as it was sold.... "we have to fight them there so we don't have to fight them here" HA! Still makes me laugh... until I think of the thousands of lives lost and tens of thousands ruined, and the trillions just simply thrown away for nothing.

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hedgeless_horseman toady Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:20 Permalink

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

> So if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto,
> we'll just be bogus too."

> -Jeff Spicol

Can I still dream that MAGA wasn't just another lie by a politician? No. Probably not.

> 5) Enforce The War Powers Act and repeal The Patriot Act

> Stop it with the boogey man scare tactics.

> 6) Close all 800 or so overseas military bases and cancel all foreign aid

> Make America great again, not Turkistan, not Israel, not Afghanistan, not Poland, not the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but America.

> 7) Pass a law that only people eligible to vote for a candidate may contribute to that candidate

> So, it is bad for Russia to influence our elections, but ok for Mexico, Israel, and Saudi Arabia? Stop the hypocrisy.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-25/quick-and-simple-plan-politic…

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dasein211 hedgeless_horseman Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:27 Permalink

Bush was a horrible idiot who followed the MIC into chaos. Trump is a horrible idiot who tells people whatever they want to hear so he can get what he wants. Obama was a horrible idiot for allowing the banks to dictate the “recovery” and selling the soul of the American economy to them. They are all useless. Waiting for a “savior” is foolish. We need to save ourselves. It starts by taking back control of the currency. Whether it’s Bitcoin, Gold, Bitcoin or cryptos backed by precious metals, we will never be rid of them until we restart the system with something new. We decide to give power to money-not them. And fighting over pathetic distractions like race, religion and political leanings only serves them so that they can vacuum up even more power.

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D.T.Barnum Pandelis Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:18 Permalink

big fat brick of cocaine? pot shot at Dubya's vices?

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Déjà view cossack55 Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:17 Permalink

Uncle Tom sidekick...Colon Bowel...

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Déjà view Bes Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:10 Permalink

Retired artist/painter Bush..experienced at.white washing....

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FreeShitter Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:08 Permalink

No Trump, the single worst decision happened in 1913. The rest are just symptoms.

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curbjob FreeShitter Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:22 Permalink

True; tho that decision may have never happened if not for Supreme Court decision 119 US 394* in 1886 where corporations were given equal 14th Amendment protections .

*(Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company)

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Anarchyteez Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:09 Permalink

Then bring all our troops home now!

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veritas semper… Anarchyteez Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:20 Permalink

Exactly.

If it was single worst decision made,why are American troops still there?

How about Afghanistan,after 17 years ?Where HE increased the troops.

A war for no reason(blocking TAPI pipeline,trafficking heroin through See Eye Ayy and NATO base,blocking OBOR and opening a second front ,in the N against IRAN,ALL these do not count in my book as reasons for war)

How about the troops in Syria,the Donald?

And let's ask the final question: how about the 800 or 900 military bases every -f*cking- where ? Cause HE is the commander-in-chief,isn't he?

I know this is going to be unpopular here,but I don't care.

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kowalli Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:09 Permalink

someone went to jail?no?

so stfu

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wishDr. Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:09 Permalink

probably realizing that the war was actually for the poppy fields in Afghanistan. we do love our opiates here!

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Quantify wishDr. Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:12 Permalink

Yea right, because no one could get opiates before 2001. You are genius.

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Xena fobe Quantify Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:25 Permalink

And there were no labs producing synthetics.

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Hkan Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:10 Permalink

Pre crash scapegoat hunting Trump .....

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Quantify Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:10 Permalink

Best thing Bush ever did. Islam needs an enema and now they are giving themselves one. All they needed was a little prod.

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D.T.Barnum Quantify Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:19 Permalink

earth needs an enema fullstop

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Quantify D.T.Barnum Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:24 Permalink

Its coming.

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MoralsAreEssential D.T.Barnum Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:28 Permalink

It's the Satanists and Moneychangers who need the enemas. Mother Earth needs the love and so do the human beings living under the evil tyrants.

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Ecclesia Militans Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:10 Permalink

Obvious is obvious.

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coaltar Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:11 Permalink

These "genius" presidents we keep finding ourselves under sure seem to me to just be exercises in humiliating everyone in the country. Actors playing incompetent fools, or actual fools promoted as a nefarious psyop... Either way, I just enjoy the show.

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DEMIZEN Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:11 Permalink

trump was just trolling jeb. in regards to iraq, don't start anything you can't finish.

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Pearson365 Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:13 Permalink

Gold for bread. Yes, gold is money

https://youtu.be/sN3iITo7gNA

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HyeM Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:15 Permalink

even if you never agreed with ANYTHING Trump has said or done....you have to admit he is 100% correct with this assessment (and he is neither the first or only person to say it).

As a disabled US Army Vet with 2 deployments to Iraqi, i agree the invasion (fake reason for going in, the manner in which it was fought, the casualties on BOTH sides)...is horrible and unjustifiable. Every time i see a picture of Bush i want to punch him in the throat...an idiot with a Yale master's degree, that doesnt have a command of the English language (words like strategery, etc.), commanding an Army and determine the faith of countless people.

But as Shakespeare wrote, "real power lies behind the throne" ... and the puppet masters used the dumb-ass Bush to horrible consequences.

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Xena fobe HyeM Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:22 Permalink

It was so obvious the grounds for invasion were fake.

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bigkahuna Xena fobe Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:27 Permalink

nine eleven and nukes

this country ate it all - hook, line, sinker

in fact, many cannot be bothered to extract the aforementioned hardware from their throats - even now.

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chunga HyeM Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:23 Permalink

It would be a real shame to repeat the same mistake in Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, etc.

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VAL THOR HyeM Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:25 Permalink

Bush's degree was bought and paid for like yobamas, without ever attending a class. These jerk-offs were so high they couldn't find their way to the little fellas room and often ended up in the little girls room.

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Solio Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:17 Permalink

hey Tyler- Does this story rate for coverage?

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2018/03/putins-new-nuclear-sy…

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Xena fobe Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:19 Permalink

Wow. Good for Trump. His poll numbers will soar.

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veritas semper… Xena fobe Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:24 Permalink

Well,if he actually does something,like bring them home... his poll numbers might soar.

But , then again ,we're talking about Americans,so they might just be satisfied only by his tweets

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wtftech Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:21 Permalink

Trump;
Ended the 70year Korea war in his first year as a pol.
Provided tax cuts for the poor.
Stopped the mandatory healthcare insurance tax.
Awakened the country to fake MSM programming.
Closed loopholes in 5 spy network.

Stopped the war in Syria from expanding.

Told Israel to fight there own wars.

according to data: Being seen with bib/proisrael can be a detriment if/when he is procuecuted or they commit more war crimes.

Being seen taking advice from former bush(war criminal) appointees can be seen as a detriment also.
...

A 2020 candidate that is antiwar/antiisrael pro-America pro-jobs will win in a landslide.

goodluck love

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veritas semper… wtftech Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:26 Permalink

Right here: this is a good comic book . Or fiction one?

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CatInTheHat Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:22 Permalink

Trump, the one who is putting 30,000 troops in Syria, illegally occupying the country.

Trump, whose arming ISIS/Al Nusra to create terrorism in Eastern Ghouta, using citizens as human shields.

Trump, who authorized 44 million of weapons to the neonazi government in the Ukraine, installed by Obama in 2014.

Trump, who sold billions of weapons to the House of SOD.

Trump, who sent more mercenaries and troops to Afghanistan to keep the opioates flowing into the US, drug overdose rates high and filling our prisons for profit.

Trump, who is Bibi's poodle and will get out of the Iran nuke deal so Israhell can freely attack it and Lebanon.

George Bush is a genuine POS, who should have stood trial for treason and war crimes and crimes against humanity...

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D.T.Barnum Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:22 Permalink

Ok, so Trump is a chindit-esque entertainment troll?

Not bad.

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NuYawkFrankie Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:23 Permalink

Then WHY THE FCK are YOU - TRUMP - invading SYRIA???

YOU'RE A FCKING MORON TRUMP - EVEN BY YOUR OWN DEFINITION!

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Wahooo Sun, 03/04/2018 - 11:24 Permalink

The Orange JuMIC speaks forkedly.

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