September 7, 2007 11:15 AM

Just Entertainment

Focusing on Bush's mangling of American ideals, Constitutional precedents and rule of law is more important than his mangling of words...but it's Friday -- you deserve to be entertained.

Raw Story tells us that our President had a little trouble figuring out both the country and the conference he was at.

First, the conference:

"Thank you for being such a fine host of the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian prime minister John Howard. He quickly corrected himself, "APEC summit," and joked Howard "invited me to the OPEC summit next year. (Such an invitation would be impossible because neither the US or Australia are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.)

But it's good to know that oil is on his mind.

Then, the country:

Later in the speech, Bush can clearly be heard on tape thanking Howard for visiting "Austrian troops" in Iraq last year, but White House scrubbers fixed that gaffe for him, changing the official government transcript to "Australian," the Associated Press reported.

As Reuters notes, "There are, in fact, no Austrian troops there. But Australia has about 1,500 Australian military personnel in and around" Iraq.

OPEC and APEC is just one letter off; Austalia and Austria just two...imagine how easy it would be to confuse Iraq and Iran.

Yeah, that would be, um, really funny...