Jeb Bush In The Brambles

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Normally a VERY conservative newspaper. We get the LA Times, but somehow got this in our driveway also. It's owned by the Orange County Register. 'Nuff said

BY CONOR FRIEDERSDORF / Staff columnist/The Press-Enterprise

Several presidential elections ago, when a majority of voters still favored the Iraq War, John Kerry clumsily explained his position by declaring that he’d voted in favor of $87 million in war funding before he voted against it. The quote quickly became a symbol of his flagrant flip-flopping and reflected the incoherence of the position put forth by the Democratic presidential ticket: They would neither embrace nor repudiate the most consequential war in a generation.

As Election 2016 approaches, Jeb Bush is making a similar mistake.

Asked on Fox News if he would have authorized the Iraq invasion “knowing what we know now,” he told Megyn Kelly, “I would have. And so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody, and so would have almost everybody who was confronted with the intelligence.” It would take him four days of stumbling to claim that he had misinterpreted the question, clarifying that had he known that no weapons of mass destruction would be found in the country, “I would not have engaged. I would not have gone into Iraq.

So why isn’t he an outspoken critic of the war?

Read more: http://www.pe.com/articles/war-767941-iraq-bush.html