Ishmael
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Source: CNN
I don't think you can honestly say that if we knew then that there was no (weapons of mass destruction), that the country should have gone to war," he said.
Jeb Bush on Iraq: 'I would have and so would have Hillary'
Jeb Bush on Iraq: 'I would have and so would have Hillary' 01:37
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The comments were a direct response to Bush's support for the Iraq War during a Fox News interview. Though Bush was asked by host Megyn Kelly whether, "knowing what we know now," he would've authorized the war in Iraq, he responded affirmatively to a slightly different scenario.
"I would have (authorized the invasion), and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got," Bush said in the interview.
Read more: Chris Christie hits Jeb Bush on Iraq War - CNNPolitics.com
He talks about weakening intelligence and strengthening intelligence. He says he thinks Obama is responsible for weakening in a shot at the state of national security.
He talks about the ability to counter terrorist attacks and a weakened intelligence community makes us venerable.
And he says the country has a tendency to look back rather than forward.
Looking back, Christi is not so good about surrounding himself with intelligence or much in an intelligence factor. And on the subject of preventing terrorist attacks, well 'just look back on Fort Lee. He didn't prevent that did he ?
Christi wants everybody to forget about it. His own history teaching us nothing ?
Goodness my toast is burning !
I don't think you can honestly say that if we knew then that there was no (weapons of mass destruction), that the country should have gone to war," he said.
Jeb Bush on Iraq: 'I would have and so would have Hillary'
Jeb Bush on Iraq: 'I would have and so would have Hillary' 01:37
PLAY VIDEO
The comments were a direct response to Bush's support for the Iraq War during a Fox News interview. Though Bush was asked by host Megyn Kelly whether, "knowing what we know now," he would've authorized the war in Iraq, he responded affirmatively to a slightly different scenario.
"I would have (authorized the invasion), and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got," Bush said in the interview.
Read more: Chris Christie hits Jeb Bush on Iraq War - CNNPolitics.com
He talks about weakening intelligence and strengthening intelligence. He says he thinks Obama is responsible for weakening in a shot at the state of national security.
He talks about the ability to counter terrorist attacks and a weakened intelligence community makes us venerable.
And he says the country has a tendency to look back rather than forward.
Looking back, Christi is not so good about surrounding himself with intelligence or much in an intelligence factor. And on the subject of preventing terrorist attacks, well 'just look back on Fort Lee. He didn't prevent that did he ?
Christi wants everybody to forget about it. His own history teaching us nothing ?
Goodness my toast is burning !
