At a Speech in Dallas on Wednesday George W. Bush, now 75, actually wanted to condemn Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine – but instead criticized the “unjustified and brutal invasion” of Iraq. In 2003, of course, it was his own responsibility.
You can see the excerpt in question here:
Bush began criticizing the Russian elections by calling them rigged (rigged) denoted. He continued:
Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from the electoral process. 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.
Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise excluded from the electoral process. The result is the lack of controls and counterbalances in Russia and one man’s decision to launch a totally unwarranted and brutal invasion of Iraq.
He grimaced and corrected himself:
I mean of the Ukraine, heh.
I mean Ukraine, heh.
Then to murmur:
Iraq too. Anyway … uh … 75.
Iraq too. Anyway… er… 75 [Anmk: sein Alter].
War of aggression on Iraq just as contrary to international law as the Ukraine war
As a reminder, the United States invaded Iraq under George W. Bush in 2003 – justified by the claim that weapons of mass destruction were stored there. However, such were never found there; the justification for the war was simply wrong. The war claimed more than a quarter of a million lives.
The war of aggression on Iraq is considered the same contrary to international law like Putin’s invasion of Ukraine – but of course there were never sanctions against the US, the UK or other members of the “coalition of the willing“. Bush’s apparent realization that his war, too, was a terrible mistake comes far too late.
Meanwhile, in the Arab world, Bush’s Freudian slip of the tongue is being celebrated – an Arab news portal commented on Twitter: “A slip of the tongue reveals the truth of the war.”
