George W. Bush speaks out as GOP civil war over impeachment intensifies

Former President George W. Bush offered public praise for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Friday, one day after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) held a rally in Wyoming in an effort to defeat Cheney for voting to impeach Donald Trump for inciting insurrection.

At the rally, Gaetz blasted the establishment and neocons for backing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"The truth is that the establishment in both political parties have teamed up to screw our fellow Americans for generations," Gaetz said. "The private insider club of Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney, they want to return our government to its default setting: enriching them."

"The neocons say we got to fight them abroad so we don't have to fight them at home," Gaetz said. "I was going to say that maybe we ought to fight the neocons at home so we don't have to fight them in Washington, D.C. But that's problem, isn't it, because the neocons are home at Washington, D.C."

W. Bush, former president and son of a president, was the commander-in-chief who invaded the countries.

On Friday, his spokesperson put out a statement saying he would be calling former Vice President Dick Cheney to wish him a happy birthday and to thank him for Liz Cheney's service.