'I mean Ukraine': Former U.S. president George Bush calls Iraq invasion 'unjustified'
Former U.S. President George W. Bush mistakenly described
the invasion of Iraq as "brutal" and "unjustified" before
correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Bush made the comments in a speech during an
event in Dallas on Wednesday, while he was criticizing Russia's political
system.
"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 and shaking
his head. "I mean, of Ukraine."
He jokingly blamed the mistake on his age as
the audience burst into laughter.
In 2003, when Bush was president, the United
States led an invasion of Iraq over weapons of mass destruction that were never
found. The prolonged conflict killed hundreds of thousands of people and
displaced many more.
Bush's remarks quickly went viral on social
media, gathering over three million views on Twitter alone after the clip was
tweeted by a Dallas News reporter.
The former U.S. President also compared Ukranian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy to Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill, while condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching the invasion of Ukraine in February.
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