DALLAS, TEXAS: Former US President George W Bush inaptly described the irruption of Iraq as” brutal” and”unjustified” before correcting himself to say he meant to relate to Russia’s irruption of Ukraine.
Bush made the comments in a speech during an event in Dallas on Wednesday, while he was censuring 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 irruption of Iraq,” Bush said, before correcting himself and shaking his head.”I mean, of Ukraine.”
Speaking in Dallas this afternoon, former President George. W Bush made a significant verbal slip-up while discussing the war in Ukraine.
— Michael Williams (@michaeldamianw) May 19, 2022
He tried referencing what he described as the “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion” — but said Iraq, instead of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/tw0VNJzKmE
He jokingly criticized the mistake on his age as the followership burst into horselaugh.
In 2003, when Bush was chairman, the United States led an irruption of Iraq over munitions of mass destruction that were noway planted. The prolonged conflict killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced numerous further.
Bush’s reflections snappily went viral on social media, gathering over three million views on Twitter alone after the clip was twittered by a Dallas News journalist.
The former US chairman also compared Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill, while condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin for launching the irruption of Ukraine in February.
