It was the “decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq,” former president George W. Bush said, before quickly correcting himself, saying he meant to describe Putin’s war on Ukraine. “Iraq, too, anyway,” he added.
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“How many Americans were sent to die by him for a lie? Disgusting,” tweeted conservative media personalityAt least 200,000 civilians died as a result of “direct war-related violence” during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to theat Brown University, which noted that difficulties in measuring deaths accurately mean the toll was probably much higher.
Political consensus among many on the left and right has since moved to largely condemn the war, with many presidential hopefuls and other politicians nudged to, when asked by moderator Megyn Kelly whether “your brother’s war was a mistake,” said the invasion was wrong and based on “faulty intelligence.”“If you were George W. Bush, you think you’d just steer clear of giving any speech about one man launching a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion,” he said.
“Welcome to the resistance,” G. Elliott Morris, a U.S. correspondent for the Economist, joked on Twitter.Just before the slip-up, Bush — who at 75 blamed the gaffe on his age — had been comparing the leadership of Russia and Ukraine. He praised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he called a “cool little guy” and “the Churchill of the 21st century,” the latter statement echoing one he made after the two met virtually this month.
As for Russia, he said that its elections are rigged and its political opponents imprisoned. “The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia.”War in Ukraine: What you need to know
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