DALLAS (Al Jazeera) – Former U.S. president George W Bush has decried the “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq” in a gaffe during a speech in the U.S. state of Texas. The former president, who launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq under the false pretence that the country was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), meant to decry the Russian operation in Ukraine during the speech in Dallas. Instead, while criticizing Russia’s political system, he said: “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,” he said quickly.
He then said “Iraq too” to laughter from the crowd.