Actions speak louder than words.

In what was billed as a major policy speech, Jeb Bush certainly said the right words.

jeb bush"I love my brother. I love my father," he told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on Feb. 18. "But I'm my own man, and my views are shaped by my own thinking and my own experiences." Well, done.

Jeb though is all talk. The Washington Post reported that Bush relies on at least 21 foreign policy and diplomacy experts that worked for either Bush I or II.

That includes luminaries such as Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, James Baker, Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz and John Negroponte.

Those crackerjack advisors are responsible for handling the Persian Gulf War and the disastrous follow-up. They are not exactly an all-star team.

In his speech, Bush said he was fortunate to have a "father and brother who helped shape America's foreign policy from the Oval Office."

But with America's seemingly endless involvement in Middle East chaos and war, that foreign policy experience of dad and brother is a dubious benefit to Jeb.

If Bush III wants to be his own man, he needs to drop the retreads of the Bush presidencies from his roster of wise men and women.

They are the ones who got us into the current mess and provide good political grist to Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton.

One blessing: neither VP Dick Cheney nor Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld serves as advisor to Jeb.

That would be too much even for Jeb.