Jeb Bush says he’ll compete for Iowa voters

Republican presidential hopeful and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks to fairgoers during the Iowa State Fair on August 14, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. So much for the whole “I am my own man” routine. Early in the campaign he said that, knowing what he knows now, he would still have launched the Iraq War. The withdrawal was a target of Bush’s critique of President Barack Obama’s policy on ISIS in his California speech.

Wolfowitz was the former deputy secretary of defense in the George W. Bush administration and has filled several other roles in government, as well as being president of the World Bank. But President Bush’s absence from Jeb Bush’s address just a few days ago was notable. Being a Bush “doesn’t change my views” he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Friday.

He finally understands that to have any credibility, even amid a field of uber-hawks (minus Rand Paul), he has to say the invasion of Iraq was a mistake.

Though he touched on many subjects, including education and social security reform, Bush’s highlight was on foreign policy and how to combat the terrorist group, ISIS.

Prodded repeatedly to explain his support for the program, Bush has noted that high standards, agreed upon by states, are different from mandating a specific curriculum. Bush, who has admitted to losing weight on the Paleo diet that bans processed foods and dairy, tried a fried Snickers bar, and praised it as having been “done the right way”.

Wilmore pointed out that Jeb Bush said in May that he would have invaded Iraq, just as his brother had, using the same faulty intelligence – but the candidate told Fox News that Hillary Clinton would have done the same thing. “Young people“.

Like the other Republican contenders, Jeb Bush opposes the Iran nuclear deal and promises to undo it – although he is equally silent about how the “better deal” that critics say they want could be achieved.

Most of the 22 presidential candidates plan to stop by the fair over the next week or so.

“It was under George W. Bush that the Iranians mastered the nuclear fuel cycle”, she said.

“I won’t get down in the mud with them”. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.

These kinds of responses, according to Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, is “what happens when you don’t prosecute officials for illegally torturing people”. “Jeb governed a huge state and did very well with that, and I think he’d be a great president”.

“No…like I said, I’m pretty competitive”, Bush said.

But that doesn’t solve his problem.

“Everybody in Iraq and everybody in Washington knew this deal could have been expanded”, Bush said. On the one hand, I’m reluctant to clobber a guy for a poorly worded soundbite when, as here, it’s in service to a sound point, that Obama and Hillary wasted the security improvements in Iraq circa 2009 by bringing everyone home and then standing around while Maliki fostered sectarian war. He boasts how toppling Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein was a good decision.

When it was all over, Bush asked for more, turning from the black Chevy Tahoe waiting to whisk him to the airport and wading back into the crowd for more campaigning.