Sunday, May 17, 2015

CNN: Republican field pressed on Iraq

By Eric Bradner, May 17, 2015, CNN

Washington (CNN) Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was the latest Republican on Sunday to struggle to explain whether it was a "mistake" for the United States to invade Iraq in 2003.

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, the Republican presidential contender disputed a question about whether he'd flip-flopped.

After former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush struggled with inquiries about Iraq last week, Rubio said -- knowing what he knows now -- that he wouldn't have launched the war. Six weeks earlier, Rubio had said definitively "the world is a better place because Saddam Hussein doesn't run Iraq."

"That was not the same question," Rubio said Sunday. "The question was whether it was a mistake, and my answer was, 'It's not a mistake.' I still say it's not a mistake because the President was presented with intelligence that said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."


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