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FILE - U.S. President George W. Bush, reacts, after shoes were thrown at him, by a correspondent, during a joint press conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, not seen, in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 14, 2008. Bush is facing criticism after mistakenly describing the invasion of Iraq — which he led as commander in chief — as “brutal” and “wholly unjustified,” before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He added, “Iraq, too — anyway.
A— perhaps his gaffiest ever — suggests Bush may not have forgiven himself. In a speech at his presidential center in Dallas, Bush condemned the “decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.” He quickly corrected: “I mean, of Ukraine.” Rather than leave it there, and leave us to merely infer the Freudian machinations of the slip-up, Bush promptly muttered under his breath, “Iraq, too.