Jeb Bush: Asking me about Iraq 'does a disservice' to soldiers

Jeb Bush does not want to hear your hypothetical questions about the 2003 invasion of Iraq anymore.

"If we're going to get back into hypotheticals, I think it does a disservice to a lot of people who sacrificed a lot," Bush said Wednesday when asked at a town hall event about Iraq.

Earlier this week, Bush said in an interview with Fox News he would have invaded Iraq were he president in 2003 — even given what we now know about Saddam Hussein's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. He later walked back that position, claiming he "interpreted the question wrong."

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"I don't know what that decision would have been. That's a hypothetical," he said Tuesday in an interview with Sean Hannity. "Simple fact is, mistakes were made."