George W. Bush called Iraq war 'unjustified and brutal.' He meant Ukraine

[samsingh]

Source: MSN News

It was the “decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq,” former president George W. Bush said Wednesday before quickly correcting himself, saying he meant to describe Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.

“Iraq, too, anyway,” he added under his breath to laughter from the audience during a speech at his presidential center in Dallas.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/george-w-bush-called-iraq-war-e2-80-98unjustified-and-brutal-e2-80-99-he-meant-ukraine/ar-AAXskHL?

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Bush tends to tell the truth as a joke. Before taking office he admitted he wasn't elected and after a long pause said something like to only represent one part of America. It was another verbal slip that told the truth he was thinking.

[Aristus]

1. More proof, if any were needed, that the only time GWB told the truth was by accident.

He'll never be rehabilitated, AFAIC. I don't care how much worse Trump was. Bush's giggly, school-boy crush on Michelle Obama didn't endear him to me. He's still a soft-brained, blood-thirsty monster with Daddy issues.

[ZZenith]

2. That's exactly right.

Nothing gets my blood boiling quite like attempts here to rehabilitate his image just because he’s no longer in power and his faction has lost control of the party.

He will never get the blood off his hands.

[IronLionZion]

3. Freudian Slip

He was thinking it because he knows it's true

[Ray Bruns]

4. He was right on both counts.

[Polybius]

5. He definitely knows it's true

And he smirked after he said it.

[jcgoldie]

6. same old George

spending half his time with his foot in his mouth.

[BlueIdaho]

7. You know the definition of a political gaff - right?

When a politician accidentally tells the truth.

[pressbox69]

8. George W

was doing the same things at Bohemian Grove that Maddy's mates were doing at the cocaine orgies.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. So was Clarence Thomas.

Justice Thomas reported a wealth of gifts

In the last six years he has accepted free items valued at $42,200, the most on the high court.

December 31, 2004|Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage | LA Times Staff Writers

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts since joining the high court, including $1,200 worth of tires, valuable historical items and a $5,000 personal check to help pay a relative's education expenses.

SNIP...

He also took a free trip aboard a private jet to the exclusive Bohemian Grove club in Northern California -- arranged by a wealthy Texas real estate investor who helped run an advocacy group that filed briefs with the Supreme Court.

Those and other gifts were disclosed by Thomas under a 1978 federal ethics law that requires high-ranking government officials, including the nine Supreme Court justices, to file a report each year that lists gifts, money and other items they have received.

Thomas has reported accepting much more valuable gifts than his Supreme Court colleagues over the last six years, according to their disclosure forms on file at the court.

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http://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/31/nation/na-gifts31

That was a long time ago. They Thomases have likely been well-gifted a lot since then.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Moron and a war criminal

Lock him up in The Hague. Cheney, too.

[Ptah]

11. Freudian Confession.