While condemning the invasion as brutal and unjustified, former US President George W Bush accidentally said Iraq instead of Ukraine. However, instead of Ukraine, Bush said Iraq, before quickly clarifying, “I mean of Ukraine.” “Iraq too, anyway, I am 75,” he said after a pause, to which the audience erupted in laughter. Bush made the gaffe during a speech in Dallas on Wednesday, which was dubbed a “Freudian slip” by social media.
The video of Bush’s gaffe has gone viral on social media, with Twitter users speculating that he has finally admitted that the invasion of Iraq was unjustified.
“The result is a lack of checks and balances in Russia, as well as one man’s decision to launch an entirely unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq…I mean, Ukraine,” Bush said.
Thousands of people were killed during his presidency in 2003, when the US led an invasion of Iraq over weapons of mass destruction.
Senator Nina Turner called George W. Bush a war criminal, and columnist Wajahat Ali said, “It took George W. Bush 20 years to finally confess.”
Bush compared Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to Winston Churchill, calling him a “cool little guy.” “The way countries conduct elections reflects how their leaders treat their own citizens and how countries interact with one another. And nowhere is this more evident than in Ukraine “According to Bush. “Russian elections, on the other hand, are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or killed in other ways “he added.
