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Bush made the comments in a speech during an event in Dallas on
Wednesday, while he was criticizing Russia's political system.
"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,” Bush said, before correcting himself
and shaking his head. "I mean, of Ukraine."
He jokingly blamed the mistake on his age as the audience burst
into laughter.
In 2003, when Bush was president, the United States led an
invasion of Iraq over weapons of mass destruction that were
never found. The prolonged conflict killed hundreds of thousands
of people and displaced many more.
Bush's remarks quickly went viral on social media, gathering
over three million views on Twitter alone after the clip
https://bit.ly/3wwrZwy was tweeted by a Dallas News reporter.
The former U.S. President also compared Ukranian leader
Volodymyr Zelenskiy to Britain's wartime leader Winston
Churchill, while condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin for
launching the invasion of Ukraine in February.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh; Editing by Lincoln Feast)
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