Posted on 05/24/2004 11:42:44 PM PDT by montreux30th
CARLISLE, Pa., May 24 (Reuters) - Two rehearsals for his prime-time speech on Monday were not enough to keep U.S. President George W. Bush from mangling the name of the Abu Ghraib prison that brought shame to the U.S. mission in Iraq.
During the half-hour televised address, Bush mispronounced Abu Ghraib each of the three times he mentioned it while announcing U.S. plans to tear down the infamous jail and replace it with a new facility.
The prison, the scene of torture under Saddam Hussein and the setting for the Iraqi prison abuse scandal under the U.S. military, has a name that English speakers usually pronounce as "abu-grabe".
But the Republican president, long known for verbal and grammatical lapses, stumbled on the first try, calling it "abugah-rayp". The second version came out "abu-garon", the third attempt sounded like "abu-garah".
White House aides, who described the speech as an important address on the future of Iraq, said Bush practiced twice on Monday before boarding his helicopter for his trip to the speaking venue at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
How many rehearsals did you have to write that?
Welcome to Free Republic.
Did you sign up just to post this????
We were trolling alonnng...on Freeper baaaay...
montreux30th aka antiblazer, arrowhead123, dmcloud, job121b, et al, bites the dust.
And there was much rejoicing. (yaaaay!)
And we hardly new him :-)
I always love it when some dumb___ who can't write a decent sentence ridicules the president this way. It's just classic.
Of course look for this to be THE cound bite for the media. MetroNews source did a speech feed both in sound bites and long form. However they made a point to feed a seperate story complete with 2 sound bites of the verbal slip.
Y'know I work in radio and if I had a penny for every time I mangled a name/word I'd be rich.
Then again, compared to radio, I'd be rich if I was an Al Bundy shoe saleman.
prisoner6
Wow, you've been banned 29 other times under that name? I would ask if you're a masochist, but since you're a liberal the answer is yes.
"alertnet"? Good lord. I didn't bother reading the article because the source was enough to clue me in as to just where this was coming from.
It's okay. I pronounce it "Ah-boo Grab-ass".
I think what's funnier was Bill O'Reilly tonight. While interviewing Montel Williams, he twice used the word "carciginians" when remarking about cancer-causing substances.
What a surprise, Montreaux... a French name. Shouldn't you be surrendering to your local militant Islamist or something?
"Carceginians" to rhyme with "Carthaginians"? LOL!! Bill is worth a good laugh or two every night.
Sit up, dhimmi. Roll over.
Now: play dead.
SO WHAT,He's getting things close to 100% right for our country and that's what counts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AND Kerry's an asshole and that's 100% correct!!!!!!!!!!!
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