‘I MEAN UKRAINE’: FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH CALLS IRAQ INVASION ‘UNJUSTIFIED’

Thu 19 May 2022:

Former US President George W. Bush referred to the invasion of Iraq as “unjustified” before clarifying that he was referring to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, according to local media on Wednesday evening.

“The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq,” Bush said before correcting himself “I mean, of Ukraine.”

Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.” pic.twitter.com/0RksaA1Fzr

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He was delivering a speech at an event in his presidential center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, according to daily The Dallas Morning News.

The 75-year-old former president blamed his age for the gaffe as the audience erupted in laughter following an initial awkward silence.

Bush also compared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Winston Churchill, Britain’s premier during World War II, and condemned the Russian regime as autocratic.

“The way countries conduct elections is indicative of how their leaders treat their own people, and how nations behave toward other nations,” Bush said. “And nowhere is this on display more clearly than Ukraine,” he said.

The United States invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, based on the incorrect assumption that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction.

TONY BLAIR ADMITS IT ‘MAY HAVE BEEN WRONG’ TO INVADE AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ

On January 10, 2007, the United States stated that it will send an additional 20,000 troops to Iraq, where the violence had escalated. On February 27, 2009, then-President Barack Obama said that US forces would leave Iraq by late 2011.

British forces left Iraq on May 22, 2011, followed by US troops on December 18, 2011.

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