IDIOT!
"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". "
Is it totally upsetting that I had to look halway down the google news page to a BULGARIAN newspaper to find this story? I couldn't even find any american papers posting about this atrocity on the first page of results.
so the torture and raping and all that was so obviously important that he spent hours and days and months discussing it with his staff. but he must have just been refering to it as "that prisony place". i think i am going to barf.
