Jeb Bush Taking Advice From Iraq War Architect Paul Wolfowitz

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of not ensuring Iraq remained stable after his brother left a “fragile but secure” environment, returning to the topic of Iraq for the second time this week.

Despite that, Bush continues to defend his brother’s record in Iraq, saying on Tuesday that its success was abated by the Obama administration’s hasty withdrawal from there.

“As I understand”, Bush said, “it’s hundreds of pages of information, a treasure trove of knowledge about people“. Imagine if his brother had said to the country in 2003, “Let me offer you this deal: We’ll take out Saddam, and it’ll only cost us 4,000 American lives, tens of thousands more Americans gravely wounded in body and spirit, around $2 trillion, a worldwide surge in anti-Americanism, and years of chaos in the Middle East. Whaddya say?”

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush eats a deep-fried Snickers bar as he tours the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on August 14, 2015. “I hope you want a president who will roll up his sleeves and fix these broken systems, for crying out loud, to make sure that we serve the people”.

The Obama/Clinton defense rests on a thin reed of claiming President George W. Bush agreed to an end date for America’s presence in Iraq.

Wolfowitz holds the so-called neoconservative ideology that calls for actively, and sometimes with military force, promoting democracy overseas. I’m not running for the Senate or running for governor.

“True to his family values”, scoffed The Nation’s John Nichols on Twitter in response, “Jeb Bush just can’t rule out torture”.

“We were pushed out in 2011…we had to get out in 2011″, a heckler yelled at Bush from the crowd.

Speaking to reporters at the fair, Clinton gave a glimpse of how she would address the group’s advance if she became president.

The exchange marked the third time this week that Bush has confronted the unpopular war.

Did Bush risk offending the first primary state in order to kiss up to Iowa caucus voters?

I have been writing ever since I can remember, but that is because school made me do so against my will. Today here I am, standing strong because my mentors could see my flair which had undoubtedly mirrored in my school papers and the essays that never failed to amaze them.

As Bush broke a sweat and pledged his love for Iowan fare (it’s better than New Hampshire’s food, he said), Janice Singletary, a teacher and likely Republican caucusgoer, watched from behind a fence. “I don’t get it. But people seem to be fascinated by it”.

“Our general feeling about Bush and Trump’s remarks are that they actually represent a much bigger problem of how, instead of acknowledging the pain and suffering of torture, too many talk about it as though it’s legal – which is totally weird”, she said.

“Your brother signed the deal”, the heckler yelled back.

Later in the day, according to the Guardian, Jeb Bush said there was a difference between enhanced interrogation and torture but declined to be specific. Bush said his father was an “asterisk” at this stage of the 1980 race.