Former President George W. Bush chose to empathize with, rather than criticize, President Obama when questioned about Obama’s recent foreign policy decisions.
“The president has to make the choices he thinks are important,” Bush told Fox News on Thursday. “I’m not going to second guess our president. I understand how tough the job is. To have a former president bloviating and second-guessing is, I don’t think, good for the presidency or the country.”
“He and his team will make the best informed decision they can make,” Bush said.
Bush criticized American “impatience” at Iraq’s failure thus far to become a functioning democracy, and said, “There’s a lot of strong institutions in Iraq. The Iraqi people obviously are going to have to make a decision as to whether or not they want to live in peace. They’re not ready to do it on their own, and that’s the lesson we’ve learned recently.”
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(h/t Examiner)
