If that's so, it diminishes his credibility for me. It's not a credible conspiracy theory, not one bit.
Now, he may have made a political calculation to separate the GOP from the Bush family, but like I say, there are far better ways to do so.
It's okay he can say it was a mistake, it's fine to say we shouldn't have done it, but crossing over and saying he lied is so unnecessary, and so tawdry, and yes, so wrong. It's really not defensible.
It’s not really unusual. Pat Buchanen believed the same thing.
http://buchanan.org/blog/how-republics-perish-124781