WASHINGTON — (CNN) Given the opportunity, Jeb Bush says he’d go back in time and kill baby Hitler.

“Hell yeah, I would!” the former Florida governor told The Huffington Post. “You gotta step up, man.”

Bush said he knows there’s no way to predict how the course of human history would change — and whether World War II could have been avoided — had the eventual German dictator never escaped infancy.

The question came from a poll from New York Times magazine.

“It could have a dangerous effect on everything else, but I’d do it — I mean, Hitler,” Bush said.

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