Politico: Bush v. Bush

The aides and confidants who helped steer the George W. Bush White House aren’t pleased by Jeb Bush’s bungled remarks on Iraq. And they are saying so publicly

By Alex Isenstadt, May 21, 2015, Politico

Jeb Bush is trying to put out the fire over his bobbled answers on whether the United States was right to invade Iraq, but there’s a group of people fanning the flames: His brother’s top advisers.

In TV appearances, magazine articles and interviews, the aides and confidants who helped steer the George W. Bush White House have criticized, tweaked and prodded Jeb Bush — some more harshly than others — over his bungled remarks, which have presented the former Florida governor with the first major PR crisis of his soon-to-be announced presidential campaign.

While Jeb Bush’s team tried to calm the furor, the critiques from George W. Bush’s team helped keep the firestorm alive. “I don’t know why he said what he did,” Ari Fleischer, who as press secretary became one of the most prominent faces of the Bush White House, told BuzzFeed.

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