Scarborough's fair

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The Republican TV host reveals why he launched his "Is Bush an 'idiot'?" segment and why conservatives are afraid to question the president.

By Alex Koppelman

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That brings up another question I wanted to ask you -- you've been tough on liberals in the past, and you continue to be tough on them now. With your recent shift in viewpoint, have your feelings on liberalism, and the liberal critics of the administration, changed at all?

Obviously since the things they were predicting about Iraq have been proven to be accurate, or at least more accurate than what the administration was saying back in 2003, you certainly have to tip your hat to them.

At the same time, I believed then, and I still believe now, that what we did in Iraq was worth trying. We've had three democratic elections, and unfortunately the country's still descending into chaos. I suppose the biggest criticism, really, should be leveled at Donald Rumsfeld for trying to win the war on the cheap, like Tom Friedman and others have been saying. But looking back at it, there was no way we could have been successful in Iraq with the troop levels that we had over there. That, in part, is why conservatives like me are charging that George Bush is intellectually incurious, and that he stifles dissent.

I think, really, one of the most telling parts of Woodward's book "Bush at War" is when he asks Bush if he talked to Colin Powell about the invasion of Iraq, and he says, "No, I didn't feel the need to, because I knew how we was going to respond, that he was against the war," which sort of sends a chill up your spine, because those are the people you want the president talking to. You want him asking tough questions of aides who actually disagree with him. If you talk to people at the DoD or at the State Department or Capitol Hill, they'll all tell you basically the same thing, that the president is a man who's not only politically incurious, but is also a leader who does not like dissent, and I think that's very dangerous.

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[Phredicles]

1. "What we did in Iraq was worth trying"???

Would it maybe have been nice to ask the Iraqis beforehand if they wanted to be our guinea pigs?

[yourout]

2. Scarborough is fishing for ratings nothing more nothing less.

He will say anything if he thinks there is a buck in it for him.

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. Worth trying????????????

What a dumb fucking thing to say!! Tell that it was worth trying to the 10's of thousands who have died for our attempt to control the ME. Tell that to the families of the dead americans. Tell that to the taxpayers who will be paying for this fiasco for tens of years. Worth trying???? Fuck you Joe!

[Skittles]

4. thank you

also, we need to be reminded in which branch of the military Joe served before he cheerleaded the war

[greenman3610]

5. the interviewer calls MSNBC a "liberal network"

that's when I stopped reading