Russian elections are rigged, political opponents are imprisoned or
otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process.
The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and
the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and
brutal invasion of Iraq, I mean of the Ukraine.
>> That was George Bush who has of course received much
deserved criticism for doing a preemptive war into Iraq.
And he made the best Freudian slip of all time.
>> Literally, the top 40 in slip of my lifetime and it's not even close.
>> Not even close.
>> That was epic.
That was a record breaking Freudian slip.
And his face also showed it like when he did that was
like, my God- >> Do you think he's got a guilty
conscience?
>> Of course.
>> He knows.
>> He knows, look guys, the funny thing is we made that same exact point at
the beginning of the Ukrainian innovation.
And we said, look, guys what Russia is doing is despicable,
we're totally on the side of Ukraine, etc.
We should help Ukraine in every way, right?
But let's note for the record that we did almost the same exact thing when we
unilaterally attacked Iraq, a sovereign country that had not attacked us.
So, and apparently, we're not alone in thinking that the guy who did
the attacking also thinks that and he just showed it to.
>> Yeah, so a few bits of context before we get to the rest of the video because I
think the rest of the video is pretty gross and
it's more about how the audience reacted to his Gaff than anything else.
But he made these comments while giving a speech before the presidential
center at Southern Methodist University.
And this is an event that was meant to examine the state of democracy and
the safety of american elections in the shadow of former president Donald Trump.
And so while of course, I mean we've been very critical of Donald Trump.
It is interesting how much the Trump presidency essentially like
whitewashed the disastrous nature of the Bush administration and
make no mistake about it.
The Bush administration, I mean, he and
his cronies committed war crimes, started this preemptive war in Iraq,
did warrantless wiretapping on American citizens.
I mean, the list goes on and I mean the torture,
which they referred to as enhanced interrogation.
The list goes on and on.
It's wrong for anyone to think that because Donald Trump was so uncivil and so
overtly disgusting, that somehow the Bush administration was better.
In a lot of ways, especially when it comes to foreign policy,
the Bush administration was actually worse.
But yeah.
>> Yeah, so a couple of things just for the folks at home,
in case you haven't heard of Freudian slip.
It means when you accidentally say something that you actually mean,
you say something wrong, but it's actually what's in your head and you meant it.
And so that's why that was epic.
Okay, we had done a pole near the beginning of the Trump administration of
our audience asking who's dumber Bush or Trump.
Because mainstream media had instant amnesia.
>> Right.
>> Like as soon as trump came into office there like Bush was awesome,
Bush's is saying and then later Dick Cheney became a saint and
Liz Cheney's is saying none of that is true.
They're all war hawks, they're all war criminals.
Dick Cheney is a torturer, has disgraced the name of
America as a sick man with paranoid delusions, etc.
Okay, so we do not do participate in any of that whitewashing.
We also don't do the weirdo like Jimmy Dorothy and whitewashing Trump.
>> Right. >> Like Bush is bad.
But now Trump whose that is better than democrats, no Trump has the same policies.
Look, these republican leaders at the presidential level,
they're like Xerox copies of one another, but each copy gets worse and
worse and worse, it degrades and you can't tell.
And the quality by the end is like a jumbled mess that goes win causes cancer.
Wing wing, I mean, that's what it devolved to.
In the beginning, when we started asking a progressive audience,
Trump versus Bush on stupidity was really close.
We asked a couple of times by the end Trump had won in a landslide.
But don't forget, George W Bush, like was not really in charge for
the first six years.
It was Dick Cheney.
>> Yeah. >> That's because he's a very,
very unintelligent person and
he doesn't care about policy, he doesn't care about anything.
And the number one reason he invaded Iraq.
And this was a fascinating story.
And we've been on air for 20 years, so a lot of you might not remember this.
He bragged to people that came into the white house into his office in the oval
office, he would take them to a side room and he showed them
Saddam Hussein's gun and he would say, my daddy couldn't get this but I did.
>> My God.
>> It's so sad.
>> There's nothing more dangerous than a country led by a man with daddy issues.
>> Yeah. >> And unfortunately we've
had quite a bit of that in the United States including with Donald Trump.
But I wanna get to the second part of this video because that's what stood out to
me more.
Now just to put it in more context, Bush had just finished making this Freudian
slip where he meant to say Ukraine, but he said Iraq and then what happened?
Let's watch.
>> And brutal invasion of Iraq, I mean of Ukraine.
Corrected, anyway.
>> [LAUGH] >> 75.
>> [LAUGH] >> So the audience is cracking up and
I don't know if it's because they're uncomfortable and
it's like an uncomfortable Freudian slip.
And by the way, before I get to the audience actually, notice that after
the gaffe, Bush says Ukraine and then like under his breath he says Iraq too.
>> Yeah, that was actually the strangest part.
>> Yes, super strange.
>> Yeah, why did he say Iraq too, why did you repeat it?
Right, no, it's weighing on his conscience, by the way,
credit to Bush if it's weighing on his conscience.
>> It should.
>> It ain't waiting on Dick Cheney's conscious.
I'll tell you that right now.
It ain't waiting on the new York times conscious, it ain't waiting on MSNBC or
Fox News is conscious, Lord Ingram who pushed for the war with great zealotry.
Now turning around going, Iraq, my God,
people should be held accountable, she said.
I mean and guys, there's just one more layer to this,
what seems looks like a simple gap.
But no, there's tons of layers here,
because now MSNBC supports George Bush and Dick Cheney more than Fox News does.
Fox News is constantly attacking the Bush Cheney administration and
decision to go to war in Iraq when they had pushed forward 1,000%.
And MSNBC has become the establishment.
So they're like, Bush and Cheney, they're they're great.
And by the way, of course Bush's spokesperson,
is one of the top anchors on MSNBC.
Nicole Wallace.
>> Yeah, that's right.
And just to make a quick comment about the audience.
And the fact that maybe this is weighing heavy on Bush's conscience.
Look, it absolutely should.
This is not a laughing matter.
Mehdi Hasan made this point during his peacock show last night.
And I think he's absolutely right.
Look, 4,000 us troops died during the war in Iraq.
And I should also note that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians died as well.
This was a disastrous war.
It was sold to the american people after 911.
And made to seem as though Iraq had something to do with 911 when in
fact it had nothing to do with 911.
And what was also sold to the american people was this notion that
Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
The American people were lied to about that as well.
So it was a preemptive war.
It was a brutal invasion.
It led to innocent lives being lost.
It's not a laughing matter.
And if Bush somehow does feel terrible about making that decision,
he absolutely should.
But maybe it would make him feel a little better if he was a little more vocal about
it, right?
Instead of saying Iraq too under his breath.
>> Yes, that would be great for history.
So guys, one last thing, because animate such a good point there.
Everybody talks about weapons of mass destruction and there,
that's where the new York times says, oops, we got it wrong.
We just took garbage propaganda from Dick Cheney and
printed it on the front page like it was actually true.
Do they go that far in a mere couple.
No, but they generally admit that they got it wrong,
but that's a little bit of a distraction.
The main reason that Americans were in favor of attacking Iraq is because they
thought Saddam Hussein had attacked us.
In fact, when we went to the war in Iraq and poll was taken 69% of Americans.
That is seven out of ten Americans thought that Saddam Hussein had personally
attacked us on 911.
Now no one actually thinks that's true.
And so the president thought it was true either.
So how did seven out of ten people get that impression?
Because the press never corrected republicans as they said it over and
over and over again.
They thought it was rude to correct people in power when that's supposed to be
the goddamn job.
So that's how they helped republicans to propaganda.
To trick the American people into thinking Iraq attacked us when everyone in
Washington knew that they had not attacked us.
Last culprit there of course, is the democrats who never even bothered to speak
out against Bush and say, hey, wait a minute, Iraq didn't attack us.
Why are you saying that?
As usual, cowards and weaklings.