The former president of the USA George W. Bush condemns “brutal” and “unjustified” invasion during his speech in Iraq meaning it invasion of Ukraine and then correcting his mistake.
Bush was speaking at a rally in Dallas on Wednesday, criticizing Russia’s political system.
“The result is that there are no institutional counterweights in Russia and a man’s decision to launch a completely unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq,” Bush said, but then corrected it by shaking his head and saying, “I mean in Ukraine.”
Then he joked and attributed the mistake to his age causing laughter in the audience.
In 2003, when Bush was president, the United States led an invasion of Iraq under the guise of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, which were never found.
The prolonged war cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and caused the displacement of many more.
The video of Bush’s verbal error quickly went viral on social media garnering more than three million views on Twitter alone since a Dallas News reporter uploaded the snapshot.
Well to be fair to bush, the Iraq invasion was 2 men including tony blair https://t.co/iIvzzqIvQv
– Murray O’Caht (@klendool) May 19, 2022
The former US president also compared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the leader of Great Britain from the spring of 1940 until the end of World War II, Winston Churchill, while he succeeded against Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine in February.
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