President George W. Bush , the man whose administration pushed false statements to draw America into war with Iraq , said he is very concerned about the lies people spread on social media.

In an interview with NBCs Today show on Tuesday morning, Bush expressed disgust with some Republicans who were unwilling to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election, saying they made him sick.

Whats really troubling is how much misinformation there is and the capacity of people to spread all kinds of untruth, he said. And I dont know what we are going to do about that. I know what I am doing about it. I dont do Twitter, Facebook or any of that stuff.

Todays social media environment did not exist during the Bush years. But Bush and his administration found plenty of ways to spread misinformation and untruths nevertheless, most notably while trying to push the country into supporting their invasion of Iraq.

The Bush administration said that Saddam Hussein had a massive stockpile of biological weapons, reconstituted a nuclear program and had ties to al Qaeda even though officials had intelligence to the contrary and knew those claims were false. They didnt need social media to get those lies out to the public.

In a speech to Congress making the case for war, Bush infamously pushed false information that Hussein, sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. After this falsehood was rebutted by Ambassador Joe Wilson in a New York Times opinion article, high-ranking Bush administration officials retaliated by exposing Wilsons then-wife Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, blowing her cover, compromising CIA operations and forcing her retirement.

Bushs foreign policy team was notorious for pushing misleading and false narratives in the press to advance the administrations war aims. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice notably declared that war was urgently needed: We dont want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

A 2008 report from the Center for Public Integrity identified 935 lies that the Bush administration told in the run-up to the Iraq War.