Jeb Bush Doesn't Want to Talk About Past Wars

[RandySF]

lorida Governor Jeb Bush said Friday that he has little interest in discussing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which started while his brother was president, as he aims to run a joyful campaign focused on outing a positive vision of the future.

"I won't talk about the past," Bush said in response to a reporter's question about his foreign policy speech planned for next week in Chicago. "I'll talk about the future. If I'm in the process of considering the possibility of running, it's not about re-litigating anything in the past. It's about trying to create a set of ideas and principles that will help us move forward."

Bush also declined to answer a question about how he would combat the Islamic State militant group, saying he'd talk more about foreign policy next week. The answers will help increase anticipation around his talk on Wednesday at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. A governor from 1999 to 2007, Bush is better known for views on domestic issues, such as his advocacy for charter schools and support for easing immigration laws.

Bush spoke on Friday during a news conference in Bonita Springs, Florida for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's annual "Celebration of Reading" event.


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-14/jeb-bush-doesn-t-want-to-talk-about-brother-led-wars

[elleng]

1. No SH*T, Sherlock!

[livetohike]

2. Bush will "talk more about foreign policy next week" after he has a chance to meet with Condi,

Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and the Idiot son.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Let's talk about the future then

How will he propose to clean up the messes his bother and father made?
Or does he simply propose to make more messes?

[Euphoria]

4. Interesting choice of words, "re-litigate".

Seems like he's sensitive to the possibility of litigation, courts, justice.

He outta be.

[JHB]

8. Well, you can't re-litigate what was never litigated...

...so let's get down to litigating. Shall we say, the Hague?

[tridim]

5. Disqualified. nt

[Cali_Democrat]

6. But I'm sure he won't have a problem saying Obama was a communistmarxistsocialist who destroyed America

This guy is a clown.

His last name should automatically disqualify him from running for President.

[jwirr]

7. Fine jebie, let's just talk about Iraq and ISIS. Who are they? Where did they get their start? Etc.

In this case past is present.

[ND-Dem]

17. +100

[Broward]

9. Assuming he and Hillary are the nominees, he won't have to

talk about it much if at all.

[TheNutcracker]

11. Oh and she won't have to discuss it either then....right?

[HappyMe]

15. Actually, they should BOTH have to talk about it.

There shouldn't be any weaseling out of it.

[Broward]

16. I agree, but I just don't think it will play out that way.

[TheNutcracker]

10. Well that is the process of running. He should reconsider. Stupidity or arrogance?

[TwilightGardener]

12. I was going to say, how do you avoid Iraq, it's like the Vietnam of this era--

a horrific mistake, a terrible waste, a "gift" that keeps on giving--but then I remembered that relatively few Americans were ever really, personally affected by Iraq at all, unlike Vietnam and wars past. That's how he'll get away with it.

[MBS]

13. Andy Borowitz' Facebook musings today. .

https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz

Study: Damage to Earth by Direct Asteroid Strike or Third Bush Presidency Roughly Equal

Try to Forget That My Brother Left The Country in Smoldering Ruins
-- rejected Jeb Bush campaign slogan

[hatrack]

14. How about past people, Gov. Smart One? How about Terri Schiavo?

Gonna be lots and lots of questions on that little intrusion, so you'd best start boning up now, chump.

[JEB]

18. Too damn many potential candidates

don't want to confront Iraq, the lies and liars that sold the war, the torture, white phosphorus, depleted uranium. If you don't want heads to roll, I don't want to vote for you.

[Zen Democrat]

19. Bush Family MO: State Your Refusal to Speak About A Touchy Issue and Watch the Media Back Off

George Wino Bush told the press that he wasn't going to play "Gotcha Journalism" and that was good enough for them.

[Gothmog]

20. Jeb has a ton of baggage

These past wars will be an issue if Jeb is the GOP nominee