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(Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP) It was just a slip of the tongue. Or was it? Like so many such slips, it was revealing. Speaking at an event at his presidential center at Southern Methodist University on Wednesday, former President George W. Bush praised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, likened him to Winston Churchill, and then said , “In contrast, Russian elections are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in 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. I mean, of Ukraine, heh heh.” Then he added quietly, “Iraq, too. Anyway, uh …” To laughter from the audience, Bush then said, “75,” a reference to his age. (A side note: Old Joe Biden is 79.) Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.” pic.twitter.com/UMwNMwMnmX — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 19, 2022 The most extraordinary aspect of this was not Bush’s initial slip, but the fact that he added “Iraq, too” after correcting himself. So does Bush, after all these years, finally concede that the invasion of Iraq was “unjustified,” not to mention “brutal”? In his January 29, 2002 State of the Union address, Bush called North Korea, Iran, and Iraq an “axis of evil,” and declared, “By seeking weapons of mass destruction [WMD], these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.” He added, “Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax and nerve gas and nuclear weapons for over a decade.”
In his memoir, Decision Points , Bush recalled, “The conclusion that Saddam had WMD […]
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