Former President George W. Bush mistakenly referred the Iraq invasion his administration oversaw with Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine in a Wednesday speech from Dallas.
Bush, 75, immediately corrected himself after calling the Iraq occupation “wholly unjustified and brutal” while discussing election integrity at an event at Southern Methodist University’s George W. Bush Institute,“Russian elections are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from the electoral process,” the two-term president said.
“Iraq too,” he then quietly muttered before saying, “anyway … uh … 75,” an apparent reference to his age, as the crowd chuckled.
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