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Jeb Bush: “No leader and policymaker involved will claim to have gotten everything right in the region, Iraq especially. Yet, in a…”

On the recordAugust 11, 2015
No leader and policymaker involved will claim to have gotten everything right in the region, Iraq especially. Yet, in a long experience that includes failures of intelligence and military set backs, one moment stands out in memory as the turning point we had all been waiting for. And that was the surge.
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Jeb Bush

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Bush reflects on the Iraq War and criticizes Clinton and Obama for their handling of the situation in the Middle East.

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