Speaking at a National Security Forum in Iowa, Bush sought to distance himself from his previous attempts to distance himself from his brother's invasion of Iraq, saying he believed the multi-trillion dollar war with the massive death toll was a "pretty good deal" since it ousted Saddam Hussein.

Bush had previously faced a pretty major backlash for saying he'd have invaded Iraq like his brother did, and faced with that insisted he "misunderstood" the question and was actually against it.

Jeb Bush went on to talk torture, saying he believes "in general" torture isn't appropriate, but refusing to rule out a return to torture if he was elected, saying he "didn't want to make any blanket statements" about who he is or isn't going to brutally torture in detention in the future.