Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush is attempting to backtrack from his comments in support of the Iraq War, now claiming he “misheard” the question.
The question in question was “knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion,” and Bush confirmed that he would have.
One of the most disastrous and unpopular wars in a generation, the Iraq War was launched by Jeb’s brother George W. Bush on faulty claims of Iraqi WMDs.
Even among a Republican primary lineup trying to out-hawk each other at every term, many are distancing themselves from Bush’s comments, and are seeing any mention of the Iraq War as a losing proposition.
The fact that Bush is making so much of his brother being a key adviser to his campaign makes the legacy of the Iraq War all the bigger an issue for him, and with both his brother and his father having their respective presidential legacies inexorably linked to Iraq Wars, Jeb could quickly find his comments on Iraq derailing his own campaign before it really begins.
Do we really have to choose between a (tone) deaf president Bush and a (tone) deaf President Clinton again?
Have we angered the gods?
What if we built a big mound and sacrificed a bunch of lobbyists and bankers on top?
no…no…politicians and conservative talk show hosts – then we can get to the lobbyists and bankers…please?
How could the gods not be angry?
And he is not elected, but the lies are flying like the younger brother, like father like son and brother.
Is this "Jeb" guy supposed to be the smarter of the Bushs?
He believes we are all jackasses like himself.
What an insult to the men and women who mourn their lost sons. For Jeb to glibly say….Sure I would do it again means he would place his family above that of thousands of grieving parents who lost loved ones fighting a proxy war for the neocons.
Uh Oh! Another politician with hearing problems. These guys develop strange hearing and memory problems when something they say is not going over well.
Poor JEB…he can't come out and say the Iraqi invasion was an error because he then throws his brother under the bus. And likewise, he can't (but did) say it wasn't, well, because everyone knows it was a mistake. And the fact that he's touting his brother as one of his top advisors tells me that he knows he won't win and doesn't really care.
What he didn't understand though is that just by being a candidate, he is going to re-open the Iraq Invasion book for a much closer look. Defending personalities always uncovers more than the investigators envision – and if I was a Bush, that is something I really wouldn't want to happen, especially when you are not in control and can wield the power of office to direct things in your favor.
I'd like to know what Darth Cheney has to say and thinks about Bush-the-youngest running and bringing all this stuff back to the top of the cesspool.
Poor JEB…he can't come out and say the Iraqi invasion was an error because he then throws his brother under the bus. And likewise, he can't (but did) say it wasn't, well, because everyone knows it was a mistake. And the fact that he's touting his brother as one of his top advisors tells me that he knows he won't win and doesn't really care.
What he didn't understand though is that just by being a candidate, he is going to re-open the Iraq Invasion book for a much closer look. Defending personalities always uncovers more than the investigators envision – and if I was a Bush, that is something I really wouldn't want to happen, especially when you are not in control and cannot wield the power of office to direct things in your favor.
I'd like to know what Darth Cheney has to say and thinks about Bush-the-youngest running and bringing all this stuff back to the top of the cesspool.
"I'd like to know what Darth Cheney has to say and thinks about Bush-the-youngest running and bringing all this stuff back to the top of the cesspool."
I believe Cheney has invited Jeb to come duck hunting.
nice – we should be so lucky, eh?
Why, on this earth, didn't the reporter ask him "Why would you invade Iraq if you knew Iraq did not have WMD's?" That would have been extremely telling. The light bulb in the reporter's head is no brighter than the light bulb in Bush's head.
Have they asked Hillary (one of the biggest warmongers of them all) this question?
I'd still like to know what happened to the crew of Bush I's TBM. If you crashed that thing it the drink, the crew had better have bailed first.
According to the most accurate source in the universe, Wikipedia:
"On September 2, 1944, Bush's plane was shot down in a bombing run over the island of Chichi Jima, a key location for Japanese operations in the Pacific. Bush and one of his crewmen bailed out, but the other man's parachute never opened. The third crewman went down with the plane."
Bush= pilot and sole survivor.
Jeb is lying. He understood the question and that is exactly what he would do. Back in the late 90s he was one of the people who signed a Bill Kristol PNAC letter to Clinton demanding an invasion of Iraq.