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Fox Reporter Is Able to Get a Reluctant Jay Carney to Give George W. Bush Credit for Something

Mar. 19, 2013 6:00pm Jason Howerton

Fox News Reporter Is Able to Get a Reluctant Jay Carney to Give George W. Bush Credit for Something

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 11: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily press briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room March 11, 2013 at the White House in Washington, DC. Carney answered questions from members of the media during the briefing. Credit: Getty Images

During a daily press briefing on Tuesday, Fox News’ James Rosen clashed with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney over the value of the Iraq war and whether former President George W. Bush deserved any credit for progress made in the country.

After first dancing around the question, Carney eventually admitted that “credit is due” to Bush for sending troops into Iraq as it led to the ouster of Saddam Hussein.

“When you stand here and tell us that Iraq, today, now has the option for a chance for a much better future than her past, that is, as a matter of factual history, only possible because President Bush decided to launch this war,” Rosen said. “It seems to me, a matter of logic, that some credit would be due to President Bush and his advisors on this occasion. Do you not see it that way?”

Carney agreed that the people of Iraq have “the potential for a better future” because of the civilian and military service members who served in Iraq. “Historians will make the assessments about the policy judgments made by the administration that was in power at the time,” he added.

“It sounds to me, listening to you, what you call the quote-unquote ‘welcome development of Saddam Hussein being gone,’ you are unwilling to accord President George W. Bush even a single iota of credit for that development,” Rosen pried.

“I’m happy to do that, James,” Carney shot back. “But, I — there is no question that Saddam Hussein was removed from power thanks to the military efforts of U.S. armed forces and they were sent to Iraq by President Bush. So obviously there is a causal relationship and to the extent that credit is due, credit is due to him for that.”

Carney went on to say that “historians” will debate the implications of the Iraq war for a long time.

Watch the exchange via Politico below:

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Whitey4West
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:03pm
I wonder if Carney would ever say the following….
” there is no question that Usama Bin Laden was removed from taliban rule thanks to the military efforts of U.S. armed forces and they were sent to Pakistan by President Obama. So obviously there is a causal relationship and to the extent that credit is due, credit is due to him for that.”

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- JustJP
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 9:42pm
  Exactly what I wanted to post. Well said.
  
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- For my Liberty!
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:15pm
  THANKS! I don’t have to type the same thing out now! *l*
  
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- KoolAidDrinker
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:32pm
  Is his pay check based on the number of words he can regurgitate? If so, I know where we can save a lot of money for the American tax payer.
  
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- IKW
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 9:23am
  Me too, haha!
  
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- Mad_as_Hell...
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:31pm
  Yeah, what he said. Good job Whitey.
  
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- dodgedart1966
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:52pm
  Don’t hold your breath, Whitey. You’ll soon be a purpley, then a Bluey.
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:41pm
  Oh yeah. But the Seals and Special Forces around the world deserve all the credit. Someone else makes the phone or phone calls, wakes King Barry from his BBQ slumber and then the real men go to work for US. The one who deserve ZERO credit is Barry Soetoro, but he sure likes to TAKE it doesn’t he. At every given opportunity.
  Remember:
  “When Obama called the Seals,
  and THEY got Bin Laden.
  When the Seals called Obama,
  THEY got denied.”
  Please remember Benghazi.
  
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MangoT21
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:55pm
The press secretary position is where eunuch/steer politicians go to pasture…

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:55pm
just off the top of my head…Bush II gave us many wonderous things:

Didn’t send enough troops initially into Iraq – prolonged bloody war
The Real ID Act
$5 Trillion in debt
The market crash
$700 Billion Bank bailout – slush fund – going away present to 0
$592 Million Embassy in Iraq, w/1000 staff, operating cost 1.2 billion/year on 104 acres
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid and a Totally run Democratic federal government long enough to shove 0bamacare down out throats
Justice? John Roberts!

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- dsind
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:03pm
  Pigs and Nancy fly nicely………..
  
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- 700P
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:40pm
  Obama owes his presidency in large part to the Iraq War making people fatigued and apathetic. To parrot the Left and tag on to your very valid points, the current administration is partly”Bush’s Fault”
  
  We can also thank him now for the power vacuum that has emboldened and strengthened Iran. Only time will tell how that will work out but I don’t see the Iraqis being much of a check to their demented aspirations
  
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- FloridaFarmGirl
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 9:32pm
  President Bush loves America you idiot. The obomanation of American that has taken place since Bush has been gone is the worst thing that has happened to this country in my lifetime. Do you have children? They will have a worse life than you stupid, due to obama, pelosi, reid, frank, dodd, etc. You obama voters will be seen in history as the people who brought the once great country of America down. You just can’t fix stupid! I will continue to pray for idiots like you, my country, and my children. By the way, have you cashed your welfare, food stamps, whatever you people get yet? You pos.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:15pm
  @Florida Farm Girl
  
  By their fruits ye shall know them.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:22pm
  PIGS speaks truth.
  
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- 700P
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:44am
  No one is questioning Bush’s love for America. Even Secular Progressives believe they “love”America more than you or I ever could. But the TRUTH is he’s a flawed well-meaning (neocon) human being who made many STUPID mistakes only obvious in retrospect. Obama is much much worse but after two combat tours in Iraq, I don’t believe he would be president if we hadn’t started that war and instead just tried to get Afghanistan right (which is also now totally screwed up due to protraction and having Obama, Clinton and Panetta in charge).
  
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- sasquatch08
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:00pm
  How exactly did Bush crash the market?
  
  Was Wall St. a casino? Yes. Built in the 90′s by Democrats who thought every person should have a house whether or not they could afford it. They forced banks to make loans the banks knew were highly unlikely or impossible to be paid back, so the banks attempted to make the best of a poor situation.
  
  The banks sold those mortgages to Fanny & Freddy or, turned them into “mortgage backed securities” a practice that started long before the 1990′s, as a way to diversify risk. Then some clever chaps realized that the risk was still too concentrated, so they started cutting up the securities into “derivatives” to further diversify the risk. This was all a house of cards, waiting for a breeze. That breeze was the constriction of the credit markets. When credit froze and these things could no longer be bought and sold, they had to be unwound to figure out who actually owed whom what. That turned into a mess. There was simply too much gov’t mandated risk to be spread around reasonably, so everyone got hurt.
  
  Still further, those people with legitimate businesses requiring a revolving line of credit got screwed when they couldn’t turn over their short term debt with that revolving line.
  
  The Democrats started a nationwide game of “hot potato” with a frag grenade, then blamed everyone else when it blew up.
  
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red1
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:48pm
We didn’t go into Iraq in search of WMD. This is a lie that has been repeated so often that everyone seems to believe it now. WMD was only a small part of our reasons for removing Sadam. Read the Iraq Resolution that Congress passed which authorized the use of force. WMD was only one of many reasons. Everyone only seems to remember Powell’s speech to the UN where WMD’s were the main focus. Powell focused on WMD’s only to acheive UN approval. The remaining reasons were great enough that we did not even require UN approval.

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Shasta.Red.Banks
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:38pm
Carney is a petty little man. The perfect choice to represent the thin skinned and angry child who now holds the office of the president.

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StrengthThruDetermination
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:35pm
I’d never be able to go home if I were Carney. My parents would beat me anything and everything at hand for being such a soulless, lying, conniving POC. I’m sure it wouldn’t get that far as I’d probably fall over dead from the shame in their eyes.

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- blownaway
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:52am
  Day, after day, after day, after day, day in, day out, all day long… weasel boy.
  
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SecretAmerican
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:03pm
You gotta love it when buttholes prove who they are.

Buttholes. Literally.

Jay defines buttholeism.

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spinelessdave
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:56pm
“thump” the sound of Jay’s parents hanging themselves in shame.

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Jimmielynn
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:46pm
It’s amazing how it physically pains Democrats to say that any Republican did anything good.

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afishfarted
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:45pm
I thought that youngtser was gonna puke when eh actually had to creidt Bush for ousting Hussein. AW, but the his cookies were quickly saved by doing a quick 90 degree turn to once again give accolades to the troops. but it was still funny to watch.
what a socialsit schmuck

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- Wildblue3
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:52pm
  But now if he starts to crow how ‘Obama killed Bin Laden’, we can throw his words right back at him!!!
  
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:43pm
Carny the Rube and the Gypsy Administration all belong in prison.

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- riseandshine
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:08pm
  So does the Bush administration.
  
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- WaterTheTree
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:09pm
  What the paid progressive trolls that come to this site don’t realize is that most of us aren’t that fond of Bush either. Both saw a bigger and more controlling goverment as the solution to problems. They were both willing to sacrifice the principles of individual responsibility and self-determination for political purposes.
  
  No, we are not Bush worshipers, but it’s clear that the trolls think we are. They hate Bush with an unreasoned passion, so they assume we love him the way they love Obama.
  
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whatthecrazy
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:41pm
Simple question loser. Could somebody stamp a big L on his forehead?looks like the old one has faded.

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crusaderx9
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:37pm
There is no honor in this regime…

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ImChiquita
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:32pm
James Rosen deserves a high-five!

I got a chuckle out of this Blaze story.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:41pm
  Absolutely, sometimes the squirming of Carney is quite a sight.
  
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kevymac
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:31pm
I’m more than happy to give Obama the credit of saving taxpayer money by closing the White House to public tours. That’s equally as much credit that Carney was willing to give to George Bush for getting rid of Saddam Hussein.

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KickinBack
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:29pm
Carney’s just a tool. Now if Obama would give Bush credit for something…Well…Wouldn’t that be like one of the seven signs of the apocalypse?

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soybomb315_II
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:27pm
tomorrow is the 10 year anniversary of Iraq War

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spirited
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:26pm
Bush gets a “causal relationship”

But
Obama (“As President of The United States of America… I, I, I… me, me, my, mine “)
salivates
self praise
in between speeches and Executive Orders.

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CaliforniaScreaming
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:23pm
Not open for debate by historians is the idiocy displayed by Carney on a daily basis. What a buffoon….

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- spirited
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:30pm
  How much longer will (can) Carney have his current job?
  
  >Obama is all about “change”
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:22pm
Since we’re giving credit he should also be given credit for giving us DHS, the patriot act medicare part D and NDAA. That’s a pretty good expansion of the federal government which necessarily means a reduction in liberty.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:31pm
  yea notice how Obama was against everything Iraq War stood for and now he is trying to take credit for it and perputuate the US involvement in it.
  
  I wonder if he is doing it purely for politics, world domination, or is it mercantilism? Either way, the status quo continues. I’m sure that if republicans win in 2016 they will do similar things like continue the escalation of drones on american soil
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:41pm
  don’t forget to credit the actual authors. McCain, Graham and the other RINOs who help Obama up the ante with the NDAA.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:44pm
  They will because our one party system is alive and sick and it’s only going to get worse. How many governmental agencies do you know of that were started and stopped permanently ?. DHS TSA and all the rest are here for good expanding and taking more liberty and freedom from us.
  
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ConservativeNotRepublican
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:13pm
Carney is looking pretty haggard lately. Maybe even he is getting tired of making up excuses for failed domestic and foreign policies.

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- AMERICA4EVER
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:19pm
  I actually look for him to resign soon, either on his own or ask to by our Blamer in chief.
  
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- tonyloaf
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:36pm
  @America4ever-He’ll probably be fired for giving Bush any credit at all.
  
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elosogrande
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:11pm
Carney is nothing but a twit. That’s all – just a twit.

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- michael48
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:39pm
  what do you have agaist twits????
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:11pm
Must be tough to play poker with Carney. I’d automatically assume he was bluffing on every hand.

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- clinker
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:21pm
  He mainly bluffs when he deals.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:10pm
We don’t have to think about it very long at all, we realize that public money sent to Islamic countries supports the religion of Islam, and we should talk about it, we should tell repesentatives, we taught them how to fish, it’s time to come home, and stay there? We had politicians that acted in good faith, we gave them the benefit of the doubt, and we’ve changed our minds because we realize, FINALLY, that by doing so, we violate our own civil rights written to protect us from this very evil?

It’s time to tell people that want to immigrate to the United States or get visas and tie up the resources of our public government system, Americans don’t support the religion of Islam with public tax dollars, that’s your political problem, we will no longer make it ours?

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jorskippy
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:06pm
Jay the Carney, give us a break. Tell the truth. Give Bush credit. By the way, all that lying is looking really bad on you. Can’t you sleep at night?

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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:14pm
  psychopaths sleep very well.
  
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- TonyFox
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:15am
  He needs to be thrown to the LIONS for REAL.
  
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