É Bush elevado?

Mesmo para alguém tão gaffe-prone quanto o presidente George W Bush dos E.U., estava no formulário raro em sexta-feira, confundindo Apec com o Opec e transformando tropas Australian em Austrians. A lingüeta do presidente Bush começou deslizar quase assim que começasse falar em um forum do negócio no eve de um summit econômico Ásia-Pacífico da cooperação (Apec) em Sydney.

“Sr. ministro principal, obrigado para sua introdução,” ele disse o ministro principal John Howard. “Obrigado sendo um anfitrião tão fino para o summit do 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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