Sen. Marco Rubio: The Iraq War Was Not A Mistake

Sen. Marco Rubio, speaking to Chris Wallace of Fox News, gets into a bit of a word salad here trying to answer the question "Knowing what we know now, would you have invaded Iraq?"

Clearly Rubio doesn't want to criticize the decision made a decade ago, but he won't come out and say "no - knowing what we know today I would not have gone to war with Iraq."

He hedges on "the world is better off without Hussein" and "we may have done things differently" but never actually says he would have chosen differently. A lot of parsing going on here so as to not inflame the hawks.

Oh, and he seems to say that he thought Manny Pacquiao was going to win his recent boxing match. That says something in itself about his observations of the world.