Former President George W. Bush gave a speech at his presidential center in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday night. The 41st president likened Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as well as himself to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a speech.

Bush mentioned Putin and the dangers of war—as well as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—during his 10-minute lecture at the Bush Library complex on the campus of Southern Methodist University. Bush, on the other hand, made a massive error.

“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,” Bush said before realizing his misstep, “I mean of Ukraine.”

When the September 11th assaults on America occurred, Bush was president. Bush dispatched American troops to Afghanistan and Iraq for protracted battles in the coming years. The incursions eventually earned the previous president a lot of flak.

When the United States attacked Iraq in 2003, critics of Bush dubbed the long conflict “brutal” and “unjustified.” According to The Dallas Morning News, which first reported Bush’s misstatement on Wednesday, tens of thousands of Iraqi people were murdered, along with additional 4,000 American forces, during the US engagement in Iraq.

Bush on Wednesday night said “Russian elections are rigged” and political opponents are done away with.

“In contrast, Russian elections are rigged,” the 75-year-old Bush said. “Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process.”

The audience did not laugh, cheer, or jeer as Bush continued with his statement on the “unjustified and savage invasion of Iraq.” “I’m 75,” Bush replied after catching his own goof mid-step. A few people in the audience laughed.

Bush has previously described Zelensky as “a cool little man” and “the Churchill of the twenty-first century.”