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Bush has bad day at Sydney Opera House
Sun, 09 Sep 07

He'd only reached the third sentence of Friday's speech to business leaders, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, when he committed his first gaffe.

"Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

Oops. That would be APEC, the annual meeting of leaders from 21 Pacific Rim nations, not OPEC, the cartel of 12 major oil producers.

Bush quickly corrected himself. "APEC summit," he said forcefully, joking that Howard had invited him to the OPEC summit next year (for the record, an impossibility, since neither Australia nor the U.S. are OPEC members).

The president's next goof went uncorrected — by him anyway. Talking about Howard's visit to Iraq last year to thank his country's soldiers serving there, Bush called them "Austrian troops."

That one was fixed for him. Though tapes of the speech clearly show Bush saying "Austrian," the official text released by the White House switched it to "Australian."

Then, speech done, Bush confidently headed out — the wrong way.

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	"One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings." - Diogenes (quoted by William Safire in New York Times Magazine) « Thinking Main Blog Car a little dusty? » Bush has bad day at Sydney Opera House Sun, 09 Sep 07 He'd only reached the third sentence of Friday's speech to business leaders, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, when he committed his first gaffe. "Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Oops. That would be APEC, the annual meeting of leaders from 21 Pacific Rim nations, not OPEC, the cartel of 12 major oil producers. Bush quickly corrected himself. "APEC summit," he said forcefully, joking that Howard had invited him to the OPEC summit next year (for the record, an impossibility, since neither Australia nor the U.S. are OPEC members). The president's next goof went uncorrected — by him anyway. Talking about Howard's visit to Iraq last year to thank his country's soldiers serving there, Bush called them "Austrian troops." That one was fixed for him. Though tapes of the speech clearly show Bush saying "Austrian," the official text released by the White House switched it to "Australian." Then, speech done, Bush confidently headed out — the wrong way. Committed to bandwidth on Sun, 09 Sep 07 in War and Peace and Politics « Thinking Main Blog Car a little dusty? » About … Archives … Contact … BonniNet	Significant Cast Members Bonni … Andrew Miranda … Zoë … Missycat BonniCam Webcam portrait of a pale, unphotogenic, middle-aged geek at her desk (or not) Other Blogs by Me … Zoë Notes … (all about Zoë) … Miranda Notes … (all about Miranda) … Trinity weblog … (trauma and recovery related) … Alicorna News & Notes … (professional/web design stuff) … elizabyte news & notes … (updates and art related stuff) … The Perfume Blog … (perfume, of course!) … Uncommon Touch … (my online retail sales site) … Stuff I'm Reading … (Shared items from feeds I follow via Google Reader) … Bonni's Offsite Blog … (just a little blog I use to post when I can't or don't want to post here) Content and design copyright © Bonni Hall, 2000-2006. All rights reserved. No unauthorized use or reproduction is permitted. It's not that I don't love you. It's just that I don't want you to plagiarize my original writings or take my graphics or layout, which I worked very hard to produce. Thanks for understanding. Web design by Alicorna.