Former President George W. Bush has been responsible for some pretty embarrassing gaffes in his time. But his latest flub was a real doozy.

During a speech in Dallas on Wednesday, in which he held forth on domestic and international threats to “our democracy,” Bush committed a verbal blunder that has drawn ridicule from just about everyone, in a rare spirit of nationwide bipartisanship.

“In contrast, Russian elections are rigged,” Bush said in his speech. “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 Ukraine.”