to say the war was a mistake because you he didn t want to diminish the service of veterans and his families adding that their sacrifices were in fact worth it. al hunt, five time as. fifth time is a charm. i wish i get five chances on every math problem i had in high school. this is a guy that is supposed to be the competent republican. took him five times to get it right. joe, i think it reflects two things. first of all, he has not really faced voters in 13 years. he is rusty. even bill clinton if you recall eight year ago was rusty when he tried to come back to help hillary. but there is an endeeper problem. i think he fundamentally believes if his brother s national security policies. if you look at that chicago speech, he said i m my own man, but he didn t criticize a single thing his brother did and all of his advisers are basically george w. bush people. it would be okay if he was embracing the george h.w. bush foreign policy, but this one is
final position on iraq, and i ve talked to him about it, is, well we re better off because saddam is no longer there. he still feels he made the right decision. the problem here is not the gasp and he said yes, no, maybe, and all of the above essentially. it is how do you deal with foreign policy issues like that how do you decide to go to war and who do you rely on. it s shaky. and for republicans, sam tine, who have been looking to jeb bush for the big money people as the competent candidate who could win, their confidence also shaken this week. i agree. i think bob nails it. the question the real question is not knowing what you know now would you have done it it s knowing what you knew then would you have done it. if you had been in george w. bush s shoes which even if the biggest boosters of the war
tried to choose his words carefully, he turned heads again when he said this. i m running for president in 2016. reporter: but wait bush not ready to formally launch a campaign tried to clarify by being less definitive. are you running for president? i m seriously considering it. thank you, guys. bush add that had he hesitated to say the war was a mistake because he didn t want on diminish the service of veterans and their families emphasizing their sacrificeses were in fact worth it. bob woodward, you have quite a few books written about the mess that was the bush 43 foreign policy. over eight years. we were talking around the table, a lot of people are concerned and republicans especially not with the gaffes but with the fact that he said his top middle east adviser it week would be george w. bush. and bush george w. bush s