MSNBC host Joe Scarborough mocked possible Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush this morning for his evasive non-answers on whether he would have invaded Iraq, calling the question an “easy no.”
Morning Joe played a clip of Jeb Bush telling Megyn Kelly that he would have invaded Iraq “knowing what we know now.”
“I would have [invaded,] and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody,” said Jeb in his reply.
Fox host Sean Hannity then asked Bush last night whether he understood Kelly’s question. “So in other words, in 20/20 hindsight, you would make a different decision?” led Hannity.
“Well, yeah, I don’t know what that decision would have been, that’s a hypothetical,” replied Bush, evading the question. “The simple fact is mistakes were made. As they always are in life.”
After the clip of Jeb’s answers played, Joe Scarborough mocked: “Okay you stuck your hand in a blender in 2003. That didn’t really turn out well. Your friends call you ‘Stubby’ now.”
“Given the chance if you could do it again, Stubby, in 2015, would you still have your hand in that blender?” asked Joe Scarborough.
“That’s a hypothetical, I mean we don’t know,” he dramatically intoned.
“Mistakes were made when I stuck my hand in that blender, as they are often in life,” mocked Willie Geist.
Mika Brzezinski tried to defend Jeb, but Joe was having none of it: “It’s an easy no — we went in because of WMD’s; we were wrong; we were then trapped there for a decade; it caused 4,000 Americans killed; it set loose a series of events we’re still paying for today; is that really a hypothetical question, or is that a hell no?”
