Kristol: Bush Might Bomb Iran If He “Thinks Senator Obama’s Going To Win”

Thanks to ThinkProgress for this.

Interviewer Chris Wallace: “Why would Mr. Bush leave office allowing Iran to go full speed ahead on its nuclear program and leave it up to the next president, especially if that president is Barack Obama.”

Bill Kristol said: “Honestly, if the president thought John McCain was going to be the next president, he would think it more appropriate to let the next president make that decision than do it on his way out.”

So if Bush thinks Obama is going to win, he’ll bomb Iran, but if he thinks McCain is going to win he won’t, because he trusts that McCain will do it himself.

This is just Kristol’s opinion, of course, but it was Kristol’s opinions that got us into the Iraq war (see Bill Kristol’s impeccable record of (false) predictions) so we shouldn’t dismiss him as just another talking head on TV.

Here’s the interview:

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