Bush, “from the irrational and brutal invasion of Iraq!” In question.

Former US President George Bush (Jr.) has sparked widespread media and social media engagement following a slippery word about Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.

Speaking at the Bush Institute on Wednesday, the former president said Russia’s electoral system has exacerbated tensions in Ukraine: “Russia’s elections are fake… The result is a lack of accountability in Russia. The decision to launch a brutal aggression I mean Ukraine…

Bush continued, confused by the laughter of the audience, “and Iraq too,” and to remove the embarrassing situation, he added: “I’m 75 years old.”

Commenting on Bush’s inaccuracy, CNN pointed out that a cable previously broadcast by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency conveys more skepticism over the underlying statements used by the Bush administration to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Information has come down that Mohammed Atta, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, had met with an Iraqi official in the Czech Republic a few months before the attacks.

The Bush administration, which has repeatedly said Atta met with an Iraqi agent named Ahmed al-Ayan in Prague in April 2001, used the report to link Iraq to the 9/11 attacks.

John Brennan, then director of the CIA, included part of the Telegram in a letter he wrote to Michigan Senator Carl Levin, retired chairman of the Armed Services Committee, which he published Thursday.

“No one from counterterrorism or the FBI… said they had proof or knew that Atta was indeed in Prague, and in fact analysts were exactly the opposite,” the cable said.

Source: RT + “CNN”