On the subject of Iraq, knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?

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The media's big question on the Iraq war isn't just dumb. It's dangerous.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

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From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

The media's big question of the past two weeks, one that's sure to dog the candidates on the way to 2016,

looks back to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Here's Fox's Megan Kelly.

Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?

The ultimate softball, right? And yet somehow, faced with hindsight questions on Iraq four times last week, Jeb Bush flailed four times, starting at yes and ending at no. And not just

Jeb, here's Marco Rubio with Fox's Chris Wallace.

As we sit here in 2015.

But that's not the way presidents don't...

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