President Trump blasted former President George W. Bush on Saturday over the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, calling it “the single worst decision ever made.”
Speaking at a closed-door event with Republican donors in Florida, Trump mocked Bush’s intellect and compared his decision to invade Iraq to “throwing a big fat brick into a hornet’s nest.”
“Here we are, like the dummies of the world, because we had bad politicians running our country for a long time,” Trump said,
according to CNN, which obtained a recording of the president’s remarks.
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“That was Bush. Another real genius. That was Bush,” Trump joked. “That turned out to be wonderful intelligence. Great intelligence agency there.”
Trump has repeatedly attacked the U.S. intelligence community, once pointing to its faulty assessment that the government of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as evidence of its unreliability.
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He battled in the primaries in 2015-16 with Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio & Ted Cruz about this very subject.
Rubio & Cruz eventually came around to a position similar to Trump. But before those primaries and Trumps input the majority of prominent republican senators still were giving the benefit
of the doubt to the Bush/Cheney indulgences into Iraq!