Jeb Bush is
doubling down on his statement last week that "What you need to know is that who I listen to when I need advice on the Middle East is George W. Bush." Now, he's told Megan Kelly that
there's no "big space" between himself and George W. on Iraq:
“I would have [authorized the invasion], and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody,” Bush said in an interview recorded Saturday after his commencement speech at Liberty University. “And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.”
That's a big part of why Hillary Clinton is not now president of the United States—and perhaps not the decision she's proudest of in her life. But there's also a key phrase there: "confronted with the evidence they got." The George W. Bush administration
produced that intelligence, through some pretty shady means. While Hillary Clinton was absolutely 100 percent wrong to vote for the Iraq war, she was not the president who decided to manufacture a case for war. That was the Bush brother then in the White House, the one who the Bush brother now trying to get into the White House says he agrees with:
Bush said the U.S. did not secure the country, leaving Iraqis to reject the military.
“By the way, guess who thinks that those mistakes took place as well? George W. Bush,” Jeb Bush said. “Yes, I mean, so just for the news flash to the world, if they’re trying to find places where there’s big space between me and my brother, this might not be one of those.”
Glad we've got that straightened out: Jeb Bush, like George W. Bush, thinks the main problem with the Iraq war is that it wasn't big enough. Please do bring that message out on the campaign trail.