Former US president George Bush calls Iraq invasion 'unjustified', 'brutal' by mistake
Former US president George Bush calls Iraq invasion 'unjustified', 'brutal' by mistake
Former US President George Bush mistakenly referred to the invasion of Iraq as "brutal" and "unjustified" while speaking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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The former president jokingly blamed the mistake on his age as the audience burst into laughter [Getty]
Former USPresident mistakenly described the as "brutal" and "unjustified" before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to .
Bush made the comments in a speech during an event in Dallas on Wednesday, while he was criticising 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 clipwas tweeted by a Dallas News reporter.
The former USPresident 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.
(Reuters)
