The audience chuckled at George W Bush’s Iraq-Ukraine gaffe. I’m not laughing | Arwa Mahdawi

I don't think it's possible to overstate the depravity and horror of the former president's 2003 invasion of Iraq

It was a Freudian slip for the ages: during a speech in Dallas this week, former President George W Bush condemned the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq". Whoops! I mean of Ukraine," he added a second later, as laughter rang out in the room. Isn't it funny when a former president accidentally confesses to war crimes? Ha! Ha! Ha!

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