The Former Republican Leader Has Quickly Corrected His Mistake, Blaming His Age
The war in Iraq was a “cruel and unwarranted invasion,” former US President George W. Bush said at a rally in Dallas on Wednesday. Iraq? Yes, though he didn’t mean to mention the operation he himself launched in 2003, two years after the 9/11 attacks and criticized for its lack of justification and international support. As he admitted to the laughter of those present a few seconds later, he actually meant Ukraine.
The former president was quick to correct his mistake, blaming his age by pointing out that he is 75 years old. Speaking in the auditorium of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas, he denounced that “Russian elections are being manipulated” and that “political opponents are being imprisoned or eliminated” in order to remove them from the electoral process. He also added that “the result is an absence of a control system in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a totally unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.” And there came the decline. “I mean Ukraine,” Bush immediately clarified, though he insisted, this time in a hushed voice, that “Iraq too.”
The briefs attracted attention in the Arab press. “The specter of the invasion of Iraq and its destruction haunts Bush Jr. His subconscious has exposed him,” Iraqi journalist Omar Al Janabi tweeted. “Yes, this is a brutal and unjustified invasion that will remain your worst nightmare,” he added.
During the Bush presidency, US troops invaded Iraq in March 2003 after accusing Saddam Hussein’s regime of possessing “weapons of mass destruction” – none were found. This operation overthrew the dictator, but opened one of the bloodiest periods in modern Iraqi history. More than 100,000 civilians were killed between then and 2011, when the US withdrew from the country, according to the Iraq Body Count.
On the other hand, the former US president described the president of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelensky, as “a nice guy” and called him “the Churchill of the 21st century,” according to television channel Fox News. “The way countries hold elections reflects the way they treat their people and the way nations behave towards other nations. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Ukraine,” Bush concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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