¿Es Bush alto?

Incluso para alguien tan gaffe-propenso como presidente George W Bush de los E.E.U.U., él estaba en forma rara el viernes, confundiendo Apec con la OPEP y transformando a las tropas australianas en austriacos. La lengüeta de presidente Bush comenzó a deslizarse casi tan pronto como él comenzara a hablar en un foro del negocio en la víspera de una cumbre económica Asia-Pacífica de la cooperación (Apec) en Sydney.

“Sr. primer ministro, gracias por su introducción,” él dijo a primer ministro John Howard. “Gracias por ser un anfitrión tan fino para la cumbre de la OPEP.”

As the audience of several hundred people erupted in laughter , Mr Bush corrected himself and joked, “He invited me to the Opec summit next year.”Australia has never been a member of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Later in his speech, Mr Bush recounted how Mr Howard had gone to visit “Austrian troops” last year in Iraq. There are, in fact, no Austrian troops there. But Australia has about 1,500 military personnel in and around the country.

Upon finishing his speech, the US president took the wrong way off-stage and, looking perplexed, had to be re-directed by Mr Howard to a centre-stage exit. But not before a veteran White House correspondent seized the opportunity to ask Mr Bush whether there had been any new message in his speech. Apparently misunderstanding the question, he bristled and asked, “Haven’t you been listening to my past speeches?” before turning away.

Mr Bush is no stranger to the occasional faux pas, and often jokes about his habit of mangling the English language. One of his gaffes came in May when, at a welcoming ceremony for Queen Elizabeth II, he nearly placed her in the 18th century.

REUTERS

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