Former US president George Bush said he has a "sickening feeling" when reflecting on the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - nullifying the claim made by Washington as the basis for the 2003 invasion of the country.
Local media reported on Tuesday that the comments in a new autobiography is aimed at breaking his silence after making way for current president Barack Obama.
Local media reported on Tuesday that the comments in a new autobiography is aimed at breaking his silence after making way for current president Barack Obama.
The memoir, called Decision Points, is also used to defend his record in domestic and foreign policy, while predicting that history will judge him better than US voters, who gave him low approval ratings as his second term came to an end.
Bush also wrote that the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was justified, saying that "the Iraqi people are better off with a government that answers to them instead of torturing and murdering them".
He also defended his decision to allow what have been called harsh interrogation techniques or torture, such as water-boarding, against terror suspects.
Bush said the techniques "saved lives" and that in response to a request by the CIA to use water-boarding against the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, he answered: "Damn right".
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