Is Bush Hoog?

Zelfs voor iemand zo gaffe-naar voren gebogen zoals de V.S. President George W Bush, hij in zeldzame vorm op Vrijdag die was, die APEC verwart met de OPEC en Australische troepen omzet in Oostenrijkers. Tong van President Bush's begon uit te glijden bijna zodra hij begon bij een commercieel forum op de vooravond van een top Van Azië en de Stille Oceaan van de Economische Samenwerking (APEC) in Sydney te spreken.

„M. Eerste Minister, dankt u voor uw inleiding,“ hij vertelde Eerste Minister John Howard. „Dank u voor het zijn zulk een fijne gastheer voor de top van de OPEC.“

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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