George W Bush’s speech gaffe over ‘Iraq invasion’on May 19, 2022 at 8:11 am

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The former US president corrected himself after saying Putin had invaded Iraq rather than Ukraine.

Former US president George W Bush accidently condemned Vladimir Putin’s invasion of “Iraq”, before correcting himself by saying he was talking about Ukraine.

Mr Bush made the gaffe during a speech at an event in Dallas, Texas, where he was talking about the importance of fair elections.

He said, “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq… I mean of Ukraine”.

Mr Bush was president during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 over weapons of mass destruction that were never found.

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