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It takes one (war criminal) to know one

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine deserves to be condemned as a war crime, but that condemnation coming from Bush only highlights the hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy.

At the heart of former U.S. president George W. Bush’s May 18 stumble is that fact that he really is a war criminal whose actions resulted in the needless deaths of more than one million Iraqi civilians, writes Scott Taylor. Screenshot courtesy of YouTube/NBC News

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

May 23, 2022

OTTAWA—On May 18, former U.S. president George W. Bush made a gaffe during a speech in Texas. The 75-year-old Bush was in the middle of a diatribe denouncing the corruption of the Russian political system when he inadvertently condemned the “unjustified and brutal” invasion of Iraq. Catching...

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