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FarCenter

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Wed Sep 4, 2013, 09:44 AM Sep 2013

Jon Stewart Makes A Triumphant Return To 'The Daily Show,' And Shreds Obama On Syria [View all]

It felt like he never left, he said.

"Wow! America taking military action against a Middle East regime? It's like I never left!" Stewart said, then launching into clips of recent presidents before their invasions against Middle East countries.

He cast President Barack Obama in much of the same light as those other U.S. presidents — saying the argument put forth by Obama and others that the U.S. should carry out limited military action in Syria for the purpose of not looking "weak" on previous statements as akin to a "seventh grade" argument.

He also referred to Obama's repeated attempts to differentiate the Syria mission from Iraq and Afghanistan as "Operation Just The Tip."

And he did not welcome the addition of Iraq War-era talking heads Bill Kristol and Donald Rumsfeld — he said the "idiot parade" was back in town.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/jon-stewart-daily-show-return-obama-syria-2013-9

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