Freudian Slip Reveal May 19 - 2022 Former President George W. Bush was criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin when his old nemesis, the verbal slip, struck again. Bush eventually condemned Putin's invasion of Ukraine — but not before he condemned "a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq." Bush was drawing a parallel between how countries conduct elections and their stance toward other nations when his tongue went rogue. "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 Ukraine," Bush said. My observation It was a confession of crime? The truth came out.