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Même pour quelqu'un aussi gaffe-enclin que le Président George W Bush des USA, il était en forme rare vendredi, confondant Apec avec l'OPEP et transformant les troupes australiennes en Autrichiens. La langue du Président Bush a démarré glisser presque dès qu'il a commencé à parler à un forum d'affaires la veille d'un sommet économique Asie-Pacifique de coopération (Apec) à Sydney.
« M. premier ministre, merci de votre introduction, » il a dit le premier ministre John Howard. « Merci d'être un centre serveur si fin pour le sommet de l'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.
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