Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq and it was entirely predictable that on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, the anti-American Joy Reid would find a way to compare then-President George W. Bush to a tyrannical dictator. Proving that Bush derangement syndrome was the original precursor to Trump derangement syndrome, Reid did exactly what many would have predicted. The unhinged host compared the U.S. war in Iraq to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Regardless of your opinion on American involvement in Iraq and Ukraine, no honest person can compare Russia’s aggression to Bush’s sincere intent to take out Saddam Hussein.
Reid started off on the right foot, but things went drastically wrong from there. When talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Reid noted “this kind of obscene death and destruction will haunt the world forever.”
“From a strategic vantage point, Putin miscalculated just how difficult it would be to invade and occupy a country that doesn't want him there,” Reid observed.
Referring to Putin, Reid huffed: “he must’ve told himself his brutal forces would be greeted as liberators. It’s not the first time such a miscalculation has caused devastation.”
Marking the anniversary of the Iraq war, Reid tied her illustration of the carnage caused by the Russian military in Ukraine by comparing it to America’s effort to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a murderous dictator: “20 years ago today, the United States invaded Iraq under false pretenses, forever changing the global order. So much so that Putin actually mentioned Iraq in his speech that he delivered last year justifying his illegal invasion of Ukraine.”
Doubling down, Reid mocked former President George W. Bush. “In an incredible Freudian slip last year, former President George W. Bush actually accidentally criticized the wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”
“The invasion of Iraq due to nonexistent weapons of mass destruction was the original big lie,” Reid snarled before going to a commercial break. Of course, missing the nuance that Saddam had intentionally feigned having WMDs in order to seem more powerful than he actually was. That’s not to mention his well-known, decades-long ambition to obtain them.
In Reid’s deluded mind, she sees no difference between Putin & George W. Bush, they are both equally evil and guilty of war crimes.
She is as anti-American as they come.
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MSNBC’s The ReidOut
3/20/2023
7:48:07 p.m. EasternJOY REID: This kind of obscene death and destruction will haunt the world forever. From a strategic vantage point, Putin miscalculated just how difficult it would be to invade and occupy a country that doesn't want him there. He must’ve told himself his brutal forces would be greeted as liberators. It’s not the first time such a miscalculation has caused devastation. 20 years ago today, the United States invaded Iraq under false pretenses, forever changing the global order.
So much so that Putin actually mentioned Iraq in his speech that he delivered last year justifying his illegal invasion of Ukraine. In an incredible Freudian slip last year, former President George W. Bush actually accidentally criticized the wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine. The invasion of Iraq due to nonexistent weapons of mass destruction was the original big lie.
