Jeb Bush Backpedals Again
Source: New York Times
Jeb Bush on Tuesday sought to arrest a chorus of criticism from Democrats and some conservatives after he told an interviewer that, knowing what history has since shown about intelligence failures, he still would have authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Calling in to Sean Hannitys syndicated radio show, Mr. Bush said he had misunderstood a question that one of Mr. Hannitys Fox News colleagues, Megyn Kelly, had asked him in an interview shown on Sunday and Monday nights.
I interpreted the question wrong, I guess, Mr. Bush said. I was talking about, given what people knew then.
The attempt at mopping-up was quick, but it did not bring the controversy to an immediate end: When Mr. Hannity asked about the 2003 Iraq invasion again, in yes-or-no fashion, Mr. Bush said he did not know what the answer would have been, saying, Thats a hypothetical. Then, he seemed to go out of his way to absolve his brother, former President George W. Bush, who ordered the invasion: Mistakes were made, as they always are in life, Mr. Bush said.
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Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)You know, former and current UN inspectors?
And, no, not all the intelligence said they were there.
Privileged jackass.
The revisionism is as sick as the original disingenuous war-mongering.
NBachers
(17,146 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Now comes the "He misspoke" or "misremembered" or "didn't understand the question" or whatever lying bullshit they bring out.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)yeah, but it wasn't YOUR LIFE that paid for those 'mistakes', WAS IT??
Only a born-on-third-baser could even utter such sophmoric bullshit in Public, and not have their career wrecked.
I hate this country more every day.
Run, Bernie, run...we got your back.
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)So, in that way, Jebbie is correct. Mistakes are made in life. The Bush family in public life is among them.
trusty elf
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olddad56
(5,732 posts)runs in the family.
xocet
(3,873 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)not sure if that takes into account health care for soldiers who need it for the rest of their lives for blown off limbs, holes in skulls and PTSD.
marble falls
(57,271 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)RR2
(87 posts)Trust me he is not the smart one, I live in the state that he Governed. I will use some republican terminology to describe John Ellis Bush, his given name is not JEB, it is made up and sounds good to all those good ole boys that he panders to. FLIP FLOPPER.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)RR2
(87 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)"Mistakes were made" by war criminals, as yet unindicted let alone convicted.
"Lives were lost" by hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
"The economy was destroyed" by shitty economic decisions including combining massive military expenditures with equally massive tax cuts.
"Al Quida was strengthened" by invading not one but two countries that had little or nothing to do with the attacks on 9-11.
"Civil rights were violated" by spying on innocent civilians and by torturing enemy combatants.
I could go on and on, but I think the point is made. Excuse me: "I made the point!"
Paladin
(28,276 posts)Not that I'm complaining, you understand......