Monday, 17. May 2004
Topic: FUN - on May 17, 2004 at 9:19:00 PM CEST
Bush Applauds Gandhi's "Easy To Pronounce Name"
President Bush met with presumptive Indian Prime Minister-elect Sonia Gandhi to congratulate her and her Congress Party for wresting control of the world's largest democracy from the United India Party and former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. "India enters a new era, and sets an example for the rest of the modern world," he began in a speech before the Indian parliament, "By appointing leaders with names that people can read and pronounce easily. At a time when the world faces names like Hamid Karzai, Iajuddin Ahmed, and Girma Woldegiorgis, India has stood up and chosen a name as common as 'Smith' or 'Jones'. I applaud that decision."
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