World / US president George Bush condemns Iraq invasion instead of Ukrainian war in a major gaffe

Zoom News : May 19, 2022, 08:34 PM
Former US President George Bush said something about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, due to which a video of him has gone viral. At an event, Bush strongly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and compared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, describing Russian President Vladimir Putin as an autocrat. In the meantime, his tongue slipped and he mistakenly said Iraq instead of Ukraine and condemned the attack on Iraq.

'Brutal decision to invade Iraq...'

Bush criticized Putin, saying the result was a lack of checks and balances in Russia. At the same time, Bush's tongue slipped and he said, 'This is a completely unfair and cruel decision of one person to invade Iraq ... I mean to invade Ukraine ...' The audience also heard Bush's words. started laughing, after which Bush said in a muffled tongue, 'Iraq too.' Not only this, after this whole incident, when Bush blamed his slipping tongue on his 75 years old, then people laughed again.

video viral on social media

Let us tell you that in the year 2003, the US military invaded Iraq during the Bush regime. More than four thousand American soldiers were killed in the Iraq War and more than 10 thousand Iraqi civilians were also killed. After the video went viral, users are giving different reactions on social media. One user wrote that whatever the truth is, in the end, the truth comes on the tongue, while some said that the best part of the video is when Bush said to the stunned tongue, 'Okay, Iraq too'.

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