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In Knock Against Bush, Christie Says 'I Wouldn't Have Gone to War' in Iraq

The New Jersey governor said that hindsight would prevent him from launching the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011.

Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011.

Photographer: Ramin Talaie/Bloomberg
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Chris Christie distanced himself from Jeb Bush on Tuesday by saying he wouldn't have gone to war in Iraq given what the country knows now.

"I think President Bush made the best decision he could at the time given that his intelligence community was telling him that there was WMD and that there were other threats right there in Iraq. But, I don't think you can honestly say that if [we] knew the that there was no WMD that the country should have gone to war," New Jersey's Republican governor told host Jake Tapper on CNN's The Lead.