Oct 26, 2015
The Jeb Bush campaign is taking aim at Marco Rubio, portraying him as a "GOP Obama."
Team Bush tells donors: Marco is a GOP Obama | The Hill
Oct 24, 2015
Jeb Bush announced spending cuts to his campaign, including a 40% reduction in payroll expenses. He also announced he would focus resources on Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, the first four states in the primary process.
For sluggish Bush, some backers fret it may soon be too late | The Chicago Tribune
Aug 25, 2015
Jeb Bush is defending his use of the term "anchor babies" when talking about birthright citizenship.
Trump slams Bush for tying Asians to 'anchor babies' | CNN
Top Dems hammer Jeb Bush on 'anchor babies' comments | The Hill
Jeb Bush: ‘Anchor babies’ is not an offensive term | Politico
Aug 14, 2015
Jeb Bush made an appearance at the Iowa State Fair where he had brief conversations with some of the fair goers.
Regarding the U.S. involvement in Iraq and the rise of ISIS:
First of all, the Iraqis want our help. They want to know that we have skin in the game, that we're committed to this.
Regarding the withdrawl of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011:
It could've been modified and that was the expectation. Everybody in Iraq and everybody in Washington knew that this deal could've been expanded...
Regarding the practice of torture by the U.S.:
Well, there's a difference between enhanced interrogation techniques and torture. Torture's - America doesn't do torture.
Source:
(August 14 2015). "Iowa State Fair Goers Grill Jeb Bush On Brother's Role In Iraq". NPR. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
Aug 13, 2015
An article written by Ryan Cooper, entitled "A family affair: Why Jeb Bush's foreign policy is just as bad as his brother's | The Week" was published in The Week magazine.
Why did Jeb Bush give this foreign policy speech? | The Washington Post
In Jeb Bush's foreign policy speech, George W. Bush goes missing | Los Angeles Times
Aug 11, 2015
Jeb Bush gave a foreign policy speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
Here are some quotes from his speech:
Good things happen when America is engaged with friends and allies, alert to danger, and resolved to deal with threats, before they become catastrophes. We've seen in recent years how critical each one of these principles is to our security, because when it counted most, they were missing. To really grasp what the next president will face, we have to look candidly at a few policies that have gone very wrong in these years –above all, in what we used to call the global war on terror.
ISIS, a genocidal terrorist army, controls large parts of two countries, and is gaining influence in others. And yet well into this nightmare, President Obama's administration, by its own admission, has no strategy to stop it. In place of one, they are pursuing a minimalist approach of incremental escalation. The results have been a creeping U.S. involvement, without any strategic results – the worst of both worlds.
The Islamic State and its followers are an asymmetric threat –needing just one big strike to inflict devastation. What we are facing in ISIS and its ideology is, to borrow a phrase, the focus of evil in the modern world. And civilized nations everywhere, especially those with power, have a duty to oppose and defeat this enemy.
So why was the success of the surge followed by a withdrawal from Iraq, leaving not even the residual force that commanders and the joint chiefs knew was necessary? That premature withdrawal was the fatal error, creating the void that ISIS moved in to fill – and that Iran has exploited to the full as well.
Who can seriously argue that America and our friends are safer today than in 2009, when the President and Secretary Clinton – the storied 'team of rivals' – took office? So eager to be the history-makers, they failed to be the peacemakers.
Another terrible miscalculation, unfolding right now, is a different story. That would be the Obama-Clinton-Kerry policy of treating the mullahs in Iran as a stabilizing force in the region when in fact they are deceitful dictators causing nothing but instability.
Iran, its ally Assad, its terrorist proxy Hizballah, and the sectarian militias it sponsors have fueled the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, that have helped give rise to ISIS. Yet the president’s deal with Iran confronts none of these problems. And least of all does it prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. In fact the deal prepares the way for that capability. With the lifting of sanctions, the deal also frees up more than 100 billion dollars for Iran’s security services to use as they wish. In effect, the primary investors in a violent, radical Middle East have just received a new round of funding, courtesy of the United States and the United Nations. And, this is President Obama's idea of a diplomatic triumph. It is a deal unwise in the extreme, with a regime that is untrustworthy in the extreme. It should be rejected by the Congress of the United States of America.
The threat of global jihad, and of the Islamic State in particular, requires all the strength, unity, and confidence that only American leadership can provide.
In all of this, the United States must engage with friends and allies, and lead again in that vital region. Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the most populous Arab country and the wealthiest, are important partners of the United States. Those relationships have been badly mishandled by this administration.
Here is Bush's strategy for Iraq:
- Support the Iraqi forces
- Consistent air power to support local ground forces
- Give current forces greater range of action
- Provide more support to the Kurds
- Diplomatic strategy for enduring political stability in Iraq
Here is Bush's strategy for Syria:
- First, a coordinated, international effort is required to give Syria's moderate forces the upper hand
- Second, we must expand and improve the recruitment and training of Syrian opposition fighters
- Third, we must establish multiple safe zones in Syria
- Fourth, we and our partners should create an expanding no-fly zone in Syria to prevent more crimes by the regime
A winning strategy against the Islamic State, or against any threat to ourselves and our friends, depends ultimately on the military strength that underwrites American influence.
For generations, American-led alliances, American diplomacy, and American credibility deterred aggression and defended the peace. This is the way forward in our time as well, led by a president who is resolute – as I will be – in the defeat of radical Islamic terrorism wherever it appears.
Read a transcript of his speech here.
Jeb Bush calls for 'no-fly zone' in Syria | CNN
Jeb Bush Blames Hillary Clinton and Obama for Iraq's Decline | New York Times
Jeb Bush Blames The Rise Of ISIS On Obama, Clinton | The Huffington Post
Jul 8, 2015
In an interview, Jeb Bush said "people should work longer hours" to grow the economy.
An aide to Bush later made a statement saying that Bush was referring to underemplyed and part-time workers.
Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours | ABC News
Jeb Bush: 'People need to work longer hours' | The Hill
Jun 15, 2015
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush formally announced his candidacy for the 2016 U.S. presidency.
Jeb Bush launches 2016 presidential bid | CNN
For more information about Jeb Bush and his 2016 campaign, visit the Jeb Bush website.
May 13, 2015
In a Fox News interview, Megyn Kelly asked bush:
On the subject of Iraq...knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?
To which Bush responded:
I would have, and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody, and so would have almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence that they got.
Bush later clarified what he'd said, indicating he thought Kelly asked him "given what people knew then, would you have done it?".