Abubu Garefref...

-"The Prime Minister brought up the Abu Garef ---- si -- situation..." Dubya, Washington, D.C., Jun. 22, 2004 (go to dubyaspeak for more such statements)

I know I pick on this guy a lot, and he is an easy target, but he never fails to astonish me. There was a clip of him saying the above quote on the news this morning and it just blew my mind. As soon as he realized that he mispronounced the prison in Baghdad that has further put his administration's policies into question,(I don't think we need to go any further) there was a pause, then a look on his face that was a cross between anger, dissapointment, and sadness. I'm assuming that it had dawned on him what he just said. Is he just bad with speech, or is the situation so meaningless to him that he doesn't care to learn the correct pronunciation? I would guess a bit of both. I realize that nobody is perfect, but he does have arguably the most important job in the US. Such a person should at least have good communication skills, something of which the monkey has none. Very contradictory. Very disapointing.