Bush at the UN: Sound it out

It appears that the White House has learned just a bit too late that the President requires some assistance in public speaking. From Australia's Daily Telegraph:

How do you keep a leader as verbally gaffe-prone as US President George W. Bush
from making even more slips of the tongue?When Mr Bush addressed the UN General
Assembly yesterday, the White House inadvertently showed exactly how -- with a
phonetic pronunciation guide screened on the teleprompter.It included phonetic
spellings for French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), a friend, and
Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe
(moo-GAH-bee), target, and for Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan), Mauritania
(moor-EH-tain-ee-a) and Zimbabwe capital Harare (hah-RAR-ray).

The U.S. press, when reporting this, was much kinder. From the LA Times, for example:

For his address at the General Assembly, President Bush was not taking any chances. His speechwriters put phonetic
guides into his speech, so that the leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe
(moo-Gah-bee), would understand he was being told to stop the crackdown in
Harare [hah-RAR-ray]. Bush didn't talk
about Ahmadinejad because the Iranian president had gotten enough attention, not
because Bush couldn't pronounce the
name, an aide said.

This was subsequent to several paragraphs on the difficulty of pronouncing Ahmadinejad, thus situating this barb at Bush's oratory flaws within a larger, more acceptable context.