This week has been a stroll down memory lane for Jon Stewart, returning to his trove of material of President George W. Bush after his brother and likely presidential candidate Jeb said he, too, would have invaded Iraq in 2003.
The host of “The Daily Show” began with the younger Bush’s confrontation with a college student who told him “your brother created ISIS.” Bush asked the student, “do you have a question?” prompting her to strike back and call him “pedantic.”
“That’s actually better than W. could have done, he probably would’ve just given her a nickname and disappeared in a cloud of mountain bike dust,” Stewart said.
But Stewart focused on the rest of the fallout from Bush’s initial answer, which culminated in him telling a voter in Nevada that he refused to answer whether he would invade, given what he knows now, out of respect for the troops.
Stewart’s audience gasped.
“That was weird,” Stewart said quietly.
“Going over our mistakes is a disservice to the soldiers,” he said with a sigh. “Let’s just see where discussing major war policy blunders falls on the list of disservice to Iraq War troops.”
Stewart scrolled through a list: “1. Uneeded War, 2. No Exit Strategy, 3. No Body Armor, 4. No Humvee Armor, 5. ‘Saying You Go to War with the Army You Have,” he began.
By number 335 on the list, Stewart finally reached “Learning From Past Mistakes.”
Finally, on Thursday, Jeb capitulated and said he “would not have gone into Iraq.”
“Thank you. Was that so hard?” Stewart asked. “And did you have to say it with a tone that implied you would end that sentence with, ‘Okay Fucko?'”
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
