During a question and answer period following a foreign policy speech on Wednesday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) conceded that there were mistakes made during his brother’s time presiding over the war in Iraq.
“Let’s go to Iraq,” Bush said during the Q&A at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “There were mistakes made in Iraq, for sure.”
Bush said that information the intelligence community used on weapons of mass destruction turned out “not to be accurate.” He also said that the U.S. didn’t focus enough on security after Saddam Hussein was removed from power, adding that that was “a mistake because Iraqis wanted security more than anything else.”
Bush’s comments at the Chicago Council speech were some of the few he’s made on Iraq since he began taking serious steps towards a possible presidential run. A few days before his speech, Bush said that he wouldn’t focus on past mistakes in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The former governor did offer praise for his brother’s handling of the wars in the Middle East. He said former President George W. Bush’s late surge of forces was “hugely successful.”
Sorry Jeb, the mistakes were made in Washington by your frat-boy brother and his mentor Lord Vader.
Yup, Jeb, it was hugely successful. You couldn’t imagine a better war for a low, low four trillion bucks.
No kidding Sherlock. Your brother got us in that damn mess and we are still paying for it.
Jeb says he’s “eager to hear” what Netanyahu has to say. Someone should remind him of what Bibi said in 2002.
Now wait a second? Isn’t this talking about the past, and didn’t he say he wasn’t going to do it?
Jeeze, what a frickin liar.