Thursday, May 14, 2015

Jeb Bush reverses on Iraq war, highlighting difference with brother


Republican Jeb Bush reversed position Thursday on whether the U.S. should have invaded Iraq.

"Knowing what we know now, I would have not engaged, I would have not gone into Iraq," Bush said.

Jeb Bush has said throughout his exploration of a run for the Republican presidential nomination for the November 2016 election that while he loves his family, he would be "my own man" as president.

Bush told reporters in Tempe that it was not easy to break away from the positions of his brother, who ordered the U.S. military into Iraq in 2003 based on intelligence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which were never found .... http://www.reuters.com