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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] It's a perfectly understandable mistake for Joe American to make when he's attempting to have a conversation about the situation in Pakistan over coffee at Krisy Kreme Donuts. As you've demonstrated, Tim, there is a certain logic that might suggest Pakistan is named after its native "Paki" inhabitants. Fine, well, and good. Let's not dub Joe American a Klansman over it. It's a completely unacceptable mistake when George W. Bush makes it when acting as President of the United States and Superpower Peace Broker while attempting to convince the Pakistanis and Indians not to blow each other into itty-little bits with nuclear weapons. This guy has a team of guys around him at all times who get paid in a week what I make in a year to make sure that Bush doesn't unintentionally refer to a people by a name that is a broadly-recognized racial slur in the rest of the English-speaking world. And he manages to nonetheless. I mean, wasn't Bush theoretically working closely with Musharaf, since, oh, September 12? How exactly do you fail to figure out the correct term to refer to citizens of Pakistan after working with this "closest of friends" against a terror network for four months? So, my question is, what next? Will Bush thank Jiang Zemin and his fellow Chinamen for their friendship? Intervene in the conflict with the Tamales in Sri Lanka? Visit the Irish in Dublin, then fly to Reykjavik and meet the Iceish? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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