Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has stumbled in his effort to answer questions about the wisdom of invading Iraq, given intelligence failures revealed since his brother George W. Bush launched the war in 2003. Members of the media have taken the opportunity to ask other would-be or already-declared presidential candidates what they would have done about Iraq, given what we know now about the bad intelligence of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein’s regime. Taking advantage of Jeb Bush’s waffling, Chris Christie and Ted Cruz have already answered unequivocally that they would not have proceeded with the war with that knowledge.

Quin Hillyer at National Review Online makes the case, as few are willing to do these days, that even with the faulty intelligence invading Iraq and ousting Saddam was still the right call. Still, the politics of defending the Iraq war more than a decade after it began are fraught with peril for Republicans, and perhaps the most vulnerable is the candidate with the last name Bush.