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FORMER US PRESIDENT George W. Bush made an embarrassing slip of the tongue when he accidentally condemned the “wholly unjustified and brutal war in Iraq”.
Bush quickly corrected himself to say “Ukraine”, before joking “Iraq too” and reminding the crowd that he was 75-years-old.
The two-term US president was making a speech in Dallas about Russia’s war on Ukraine and was speaking about Russia’s persecution of political opponents he made the gaffe.
The result is an absence of checks and balances and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq, I mean Ukraine.
Bush was president when the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq toppled dictator Saddam Hussein and ushered in one of the bloodiest periods in the country’s modern history, marked by sectarian warfare and the rise of jihadists.
Between 2003 and 2011, when the US withdrew its troops, more than 100,000 civilians were killed, according to the Iraq Body Count tracker. The invasion cost the lives of nearly 4,500 Americans.
Video footage of the gaffe has since gone viral online, with one post on Twitter having been viewed more than 14 million times in less than half a day.
It was also picked widely up by Arab media, stoking anger among Iraqis.
“The spectre of Iraq’s invasion and destruction haunts Bush Jr. His subconscious exposed it when it took over his tongue,” Iraqi journalist Omar al-Janabi tweeted.
“Yes it is a brutal and unjustified invasion which will remain your worst nightmare”, he added.
The US-led invasion of Iraq was launched on 20 March, 2003 after accusations that the Saddam regime had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
With reporting by © – AFP 2022
Depends on the humidity doesn’t it
@Donwon999: can also depend on nudity
@Boris Becker: hahahah
@Boris Becker: does and age, sex, size, skin colour, emissivity, wind speed, glare, etc etc etc
When it’s too hot for tea
@Madra: Yep. Just the thought of tea burns your insides and you feel you’re about to suffocate. Then it’s too hot.
@Arya: ah cupàn taê cool ye down on a hot day
@Madra: ice tea :)
25 here is coming close to too hot, I’ve experienced 47 in Nevada which was tolerable,
Depends on humidity!
@Who cares?: who cares
How many polls is too many polls?
(A) Too many
(B) Not at all, we need more polls
(C) This is actually a poll
@Ben Jamen: (D) No opinion, Don’t know.
@Who cares?:
(E) Don’t Care!
It’s not so much the heat that gets you, it’s the humidity.
20 is plenty, we’re not lizards. A big thank you to Mr Carrier for inventing air conditioning
@tipptop9: snore! Typical tipp bogger, pasty shkin. 20 is barely tanning weather!
@tipptop9: Air conditioner is a big contributer to global warming.
@Al Madzer: must be one of them North Tipp eskimos
@Fifty Shades of Sé: Yes normal humans can be cool indoors and the lizards can bake outside, win win
@Al Madzer: he will be the one with the Tipp team shirt and white legs like a corpse, I’d that who you mean.
@Gus Sheridan: f,,ck predictive text again if I could meet the eejit that invented it I’d give him a knuckle sandwich……read. Is that who you mean ?
I experienced 50C last summer in Arizona, which was actually okay compared to 28C a couple of weeks later in New York. It’s the humidity that gets ya!
Is it just me? This hype around 28 degrees at the end of June is a sad indictment of the Irish people and the Irish media. It’s ridiculous that we’re even talking about it.
Yes, France is having a heatwave, it’s over 40 degrees there. We had sunny weather here for two days and we are subjected to a barrage of hyped news and “weather warnings”.
Can we all get a grip again please? There are plenty of newsworthy events happening around the country and the world that we could and should be reading about… Not this. And yes, I know….I didn’t need to click on the article
Close to 40°c regularly here in Valetta – no problem!
@Alonzo Margate: we visited Valetta a couple of years ago and like most places abroad it’s more of a dry heat rather than the murky humidity you get here in Ireland. That’s the main problem here, the humidity rather than the actual heat
@Alonzo Margate: it certainly would be a problem for people working outdoors.
@Alonzo Margate: Algarve on 30c shade temp, just nice, not too hot. Don’t like it when it hits 40c
@Alonzo Margate: say hi to Dinney please
Mrs Doyle. Now she’s too hot
@Fr. Fintan Stack: ahh! gwan wit ya !
Have no issue with heat at all thankfully – the warmer the better. It is never quite as pleasant in a city though.
Please dont tell the politicians they ll only want to charge us for the heat in the same ugly way they wanted to bring water charges in
@Liam Ward: irony is beaches have been closed on some of hottest days because not enough money was invested on our water services systems. Bet you didn’t swim in the buff recently for that reason.
@Liam Ward: these idiot politicians are making my blood boil every day thesedays.
Don’t know but I’m shiiiiit hot.
It’s been hitting 30- 35 C here in Bulgaria on the Black Sea coast this week. There’s been a lot of storms as well which makes things very humid before the storms break. July into August can get even hotter. I enjoy the heat except for the evening mossies. Winters can be long and very cold here, dull, grey and depressing.
Think we have around 170 Eskimos voting in these polls.
When a certain commentator mentions his speedos again for the 48th bloody time.
Weird phrasing, anyone that chose 20-23 also thinks 24 is too hot but won’t be counted in that number.
Been in 42degrees in a horribly humid Chicago, cannot escape it. Forget about drying off getting out of the shower.
What would we know about it apart from being a nation of emigrants and living in the mines the the Pilbara
I want it so hot that the sweat runs down the crack of my ass like niagra.
@Seriously stunned: Your ass?
@Seriously stunned: your ass is as big as niagra?
Ouch.
Depends on where you are too… has rained for one day in the last 3 months here, 30c here now
I lived in darwin the NT was over 40 degrees all the time. Goway and relax will ye
You really need to factor in the humidity.
when your goolies stick to the side of your thighs – its getting to hot !
Well its lashing this morning n its freezen out
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