JP's editor at the undergraduate newspaper now works for a Japanese newspaper in New York, got ahold of an unedited version of the speech Bush gave yesterday concerning Iran and sent it along to the JP.
After being President for seven years now, apparently Bush is still a little befuddled by pronouncing words referring to something foreign:
The behavior of the Mugabe [moo-GAHbee] regime is an assault on its people – and an affront to the principles of the Universal Declaration. The United Nations must insist on change In Harare [hah-RAR-ray] – and freedom for the people of Zimbabwe.
I look forward to attending a Security Council meeting that will focus on Darfur, chaired by French President Sarkozy [sar-KOzee].
Note: Bush and Sarkozy have met in person several times.
The United States salutes the nations that have recently taken strides toward liberty – including Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan [KEYRgeez-stan], Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a], Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Morocco.
For the seventh grade student giving a presentation on these issues, this would be totally appropriate and even commendable. If you're the President of this country, you should be able to show enough respect for the rest of the world to pronounce their country names.
UPDATE: From the source: "They had posted it on the UN's website by mistake. They took it down almost immediately, but not before we had ahold of it.
Heeheehee, I love how he had to have help with Sarkozy. That's just embarrassing."
1 comment:
i think this was an intentional leak, by someone high up. i mean, i'm impressed that bush knows how to read phonetical spelling. aren't you?
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