Jeb backtracks on Iraq War comments

Mark Matassa Jul 6, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Jeb backtracks on Iraq War comments</h1>
                <h2><p>Two days later, presumed Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was trying to distance himself from his suggestion on Fox News that he still supported his brother President George Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Bush said he misunderstood the question, and was stating how he would have responded at the time,</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mmatassa-mac-com/">Mark Matassa</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://dev.cascadepbs.org/content/images/sites/default/files/images/article/gallery/jeb-rns-catholic-gopbthumb.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="Jeb" loading="lazy" width="300" height="208"></figure><p>Two days later, presumed Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was trying to distance himself from his suggestion on Fox News that he still supported his brother President George Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Bush said <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/12/jeb-bush-clarifies-remarks-on-supporting-iraq-war/?hp=&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">he misunderstood the question</a>, and was stating how he would have responded at the time, not now with hindsight knowledge, according to <em>The New York Times</em> account.</p><p>Speaking with another Fox News anchor on Tuesday, Bush said: “I don’t know what that decision would have been. That’s a hypothetical, but mistakes were made, as they always are in life.”</p>
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Two days later, presumed Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was trying to distance himself from his suggestion on Fox News that he still supported his brother President George Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Bush said he misunderstood the question, and was stating how he would have responded at the time, not now with hindsight knowledge, according to The New York Times account.

Speaking with another Fox News anchor on Tuesday, Bush said: “I don’t know what that decision would have been. That’s a hypothetical, but mistakes were made, as they always are in life.”

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