Finding Russia’s Ukraine invasion as unjustified, and brutal while implicitly and explicitly justifying the Iraq invasion highlights the double-speak not only of Bush but the entire west which didn’t take a single measure to stop the US from committing war crimes and resorting to violence. But on the other side, Ukraine is provided with all the necessary assistance to fight Russia. Strange!
The war which the US under Bush waged on Iraq had a sole grounding that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction and that the country was also going ahead with its nuclear program. However, in reality, there was nothing of such sort, which even the US forces knew, but when they were pushed into the war, they ultimately did what was never imagined. It is also on record that a UN inspection team that visited Iraq stated openly that it found no evidence of what the US claimed Iraq possessed.
What Bush said, accidentally, should not be taken as it appears; rather, there is more to it that suggests that the Iraq invasion—and what the US ended up doing there—still haunts the former US President. Even if he won’t say it, the blood of innocent people spilled from March 2003 to December 2011 must have been giving him nightmares—that’s what is deducted from that apparent gaffe.
Bush has not done it for the first time, but he has been famous for slips of the tongue, however, the slip his tongue has made this time, is heavy and carries a lot of meaning. In a way, the blood of nearly 2 lakh civilians who were killed during a war that had no basis, somehow, raised the cry before the public, through the mouth of the perpetrators of that war. The cry of injustice and extremes committed against the innocents has finally made its way out. This time, it has come out of the mouth of George W. Bush, who once, famously said that the coalition “aims to free the Iraqi people”, but what it ended up doing will be remembered for ages to come as nothing, but brutal…
