Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti Trash George W. Bush’s ‘Not Funny’ Invasion of Iraq Slip: He ‘Ruined So Much About America’

Breaking Points hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti took aim at former President George W. Bush after he made a slip up during a recent speech.

The former president was giving a speech at the George W. Bush Institute on Wednesday night when he went after Russian President Vladimir Putin saying, “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq — I mean, of Ukraine.”

After he misspoke, he went on to mumble under his breath, “Iraq too,” as the audience began to laugh. “I’m 75,” he added.

On Thursday’s episode of Breaking Points, Ball and Enjeti held nothing back when they labeled the slip up as simply, “Not funny.”

“There’s actually really nothing funny about that. At all,” Enjeti said.

Ball interjected, saying, “I mean, I understand people in the audience are just like uncomfortable, but you destroyed an entire region. You killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. You sent our men and women to fight and die for lies. This isn’t — it’s not funny. And the fact that he said that is really something.”

Enjeti added, “I saw a tweet once, which I have never agreed more — I know this sounds ridiculous, but just bear with me — (Anthony) Fauci is a guy who basically ruined the lives of a lot of younger people by pushing a certain type of ideology that changed our world forever. And he said like, George W. Bush, I don’t think I could ever shake his hand.”

“I’ve been thinking about that in the context of Bush, which is, you know, I’ve always generally been and aired on the side of collegiality, but there are certain types of figures like him who ruined so much of what I loved about America and ruined so much about both our, I think, political awakenings,” he continued. “I don’t think I would ever be able to shake George W. Bush’s — I don’t think I could ever be in a polite society conversation event like that and just laugh hilariously.”

Ball then said, “He was resuscitated in the Trump era as some sort of like, you know, oh, ‘That’s back when the Republicans were reasonable.'”

“Ain’t nothing reasonable about it,” Enjeti quipped.

Ball concluded, “You know, you can have a critique of Trump and like accurately portray how bad he is without reviving war criminals like George W. Bush.”

Listen above via Breaking Points.