Jeb Bush Takes On the Party of Defeat

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush got it right regarding Iraq in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Tuesday night. "That premature withdrawal was the fatal error, creating the void that ISIS moved in to fill," he declared. "Where was the secretary of state, Secretary of State Clinton, in all of this? Like the president himself, she had opposed the surge, then joined in claiming credit for its success, then stood by as that hard-won victory by American and allied forces was thrown away." Unsurprisingly, Hillary Clinton senior policy adviser and former State Department aide Jake Sullivan leaped to Clinton's defense. "This is a pretty bold attempt to rewrite history and reassign responsibility," he said. "They cannot be allowed to escape responsibility for the real mistake here. They might hope we'll all forget, but the American people remember."