JEB BUSH’S DISTRACTORS JUMPING UP AND DOWN WITH JOY OVER IRAQ INVASION STATEMENT

Bush says that like his brother George W., he too would have authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq

“I would have and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.”

That’s how Jeb Bush answered Megyn Kelly of Fox News when she asked him, “Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?”

The Democrats, as expected, were quick to attack Jeb’s statement. So were some conservative commentators.

Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham said “there has to be something wrong with” Bush. “You can’t think going into Iraq now, as a sane human being, was the right thing to do. That’s like you have no ability to learn from past mistakes at all.”

Conservative columnist Byron York of The Washington Examiner says, “As for whether Hillary Clinton would have authorized the invasion "knowing what we know now" — it's hard to believe that Jeb Bush is serious when he says she would. Of course she wouldn't.” He added that “If Jeb Bush sticks to his position — that he would still authorize war knowing what we know today — it will represent a step backward for the Republican Party.”

What a bunch of horseshit! Jeb’s distractors are jumping up and down with joy by knowingly and willfully misinterpreting Bush’s position. They are saying that Bush would have invaded Iraq even if he knew Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. That’s no true and they damn well know it!

Bush said that based on the intelligence supplied by the CIA and Britain’s MI6 that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in 2003, like his brother George W., he too would have invaded Iraq. That intelligence proved to be bogus. Bush never said he would have invaded Iraq had he known there were no weapons of mass destruction.

In 2013, then Mew York Senator Hillary Clinton voted in support of the Iraq invasion. She has since said she regretted her supporting vote. You can bet every last dime you’ve got that had Hillary been President at the time, she too would have sent our troops into Iraq.

Jeb Bush is not conservative enough for the Republican base which detests him with a purple passion. Yet, Jeb is the only Republican that has a chance to defeat Hillary in next year’s presidential election.