Editing Jeb Bush (section)

== On Iraq ==
May of 2015: “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.”

“By the way, guess who thinks that those mistakes took place as well? George W. Bush,” [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/10/exclusive-jeb-bush-says-hillary-clinton-would-have-backed-iraq-invasion/ 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.” 

"I'm not going to go out of my way to say that my brother did this wrong or my dad did this wrong," [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_BUSH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-16-13-38-34 Bush added]. "It's just not going to happen."

After on outcry over his professed support for the Iraq War, Bush tried to walk back his comments, saying he misinterpreted the question. A few days later [http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/jeb-bush-now-says-i-would-not-have-gone-iraq-n358966 he completely reversed himself, stating] ""Here's the deal: If we're all supposed to answer hypothetical questions, knowing what we know now, what would you have done, I would have not engaged. I would not have gone into Iraq."

Bush took a different approach early on when the invasion was starting. [http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/02/18/3624114/people-lied-iraq-now-charge-jeb-bushs-foreign-policy/ Speaking to Florida reporters] in 2003, he said about Iraq: "I know [George W. Bush] is doing what he thinks is right, and I concur with him.”

“I have never disagreed with [George W. Bush]… ‘til death do us part." ([http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/02/18/3624114/people-lied-iraq-now-charge-jeb-bushs-foreign-policy/ CNN interview from 2010 with former President George W. Bush])

“History will be kind to my brother [on Iraq] the further out you get from this and the more people compare his tenure to what’s going on now." Jeb Bush in an [http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/02/18/3624114/people-lied-iraq-now-charge-jeb-bushs-foreign-policy/NBC interview from 2013.]