America’s mistakes in Iraq cast a shadow on the war in Ukraine.
A few months ago, former US President George W. Bush’s slip of the tongue about the Iraq war when he was speaking at a library in Texas contained many subtleties about this war.
A few months ago, Bush blamed himself for a verbal mistake when he tried to blame Vladimir Putin for the decision to launch an attack on Ukraine. “One man’s decision to start an unjustifiable and brutal war in Iraq!” he said.
Bush quickly went back and tried to make up for his mistake by saying the word “Ukraine” instead of “Iraq”, but the sound of soft chuckles filled the room. The Washington Post newspaper wrote, of course, there were many who did not laugh and preferred to think about the facts in the words of the president who started the Iraq war.
Perhaps among the propositions that passed in the minds of some of those present at that meeting that day was the repetition of America’s mistakes in the Iraq war, this time in Ukraine; An issue that the Washington Post mentioned in an article on Thursday on the occasion of the anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The Washington Post wrote in this analysis that twenty years ago, critics described George Bush’s administration’s decision to invade Iraq as “completely unjustified” and “cruel”, and these views are only expanding and becoming more solid after 20 years.
This newspaper writes: “The Bush administration had lined up a list of good intentions and sold it to the public to justify its so-called “preventive” intervention against the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime. This government’s search for weapons of mass destruction was a futile effort based on false information.
