A US press report indicated that former US President George W. Bush’s slip of the tongue during a speech in which he replaced Ukraine with Iraq has become a grim reminder of Washington’s foreign policy hypocrisy.
According to the report published by the New York Times, this error reveals the tragedy of stupidity and highlights the deterioration of the United States.
The article notes that there will be “no rest in old age” in 2022, not just for Bush, but for all of America, where democracy is outdated. In addition, the former president’s blunder, which went viral on the Internet, is a reminder of the number of people who preferred to forget the fiasco in Iraq, yet the invasion was based on a false backdrop that Democrats and Republicans agreed to.
The article added that what brought them together was typical American arrogance and naivety, unwillingness to acknowledge the real policy behind American interventions in the oil-rich Middle East, and a desire to speak subtly about freedom and democracy.
Speaking in Dallas this afternoon, former President George. W Bush made a significant verbal slip-up while discussing the war in Ukraine.
He tried referencing what he described as the “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion” — but said Iraq, instead of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/tw0VNJzKmE
— Michael Williams (@michaeldamianw) May 19, 2022
It is noteworthy that George W. Bush, 75, was exposed to an embarrassing situation during a speech at the Bush Institute ceremony, and the former US president tried to criticize Vladimir Putin and the Russian special operation, but he made a mistake between Ukraine and Iraq.