{"id":9296,"date":"2015-05-13T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:22:11","slug":"mistakes-were-made-in-iraq-do-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9296","title":{"rendered":"'Mistakes were made' in Iraq … do you think?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There goes Jeb Bush, using that maddening passive-voice clich\u00e9 that declares “mistakes were made.”<\/p>\n

The mistakes occurred in Iraq after his brother, former President George W. Bush, invaded that country on a bogus premise that the Iraqis possessed weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

He told Fox News’s Megyn Kelly that he’d invade Iraq also, even he knew there were no WMD.<\/p>\n

Now he’s backing away from the statement, telling\u00a0conservative talk-show host Sean Hannity that predicting what he’d do is a “hypothetical” situation.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/jeb-bush-backs-off-support-of-iraq-invasion\/ar-BBjH0wT<\/p>\n

The former Florida governor is considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination next year. He’s almost certain to join a growing GOP field.<\/p>\n

He’d better get his Iraq War spiel lined out.<\/p>\n

He told Hannity that President Bush learned from the “faulty intelligence” on which he relied to launch the March 2003 invasion. I guess that’s his view. As for the former president, he hasn’t yet revealed what precisely he “learned” from the mistaken intelligence-gathering.<\/p>\n

I’m actually hoping Bush gets his act together. His party needs someone with a reputation for moderation running for president. The TEA party wing of the GOP has a lot of champions in the hunt already for the White House — and I expect fully that Gov. Bush will try to sound like one of them as he launches his own presidential bid.<\/p>\n

His record, though, tells a different story.<\/p>\n

Jeb Bush’s first major obstacle, though, is to persuade the country he is no carbon copy of his brother.<\/p>\n

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There goes Jeb Bush, using that maddening passive-voice clich\u00e9 that declares “mistakes were made.” The mistakes occurred in Iraq after his brother, former President George W. Bush, invaded that country on a bogus premise that the Iraqis possessed weapons of mass destruction. He told Fox News’s Megyn Kelly that he’d invade Iraq also, even he … Continue reading 'Mistakes were made' in Iraq … do you think?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1133,1788,1899,2334,2429,2993,4159,5283],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-conservative-talk-radio","tag-fox-news","tag-george-w-bush","tag-iraq-war","tag-jeb-bush","tag-megyn-kelly","tag-sean-hannity","tag-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}