The Manchurian Candidate?

I've mostly been giving this movie (and its related hype) a giant miss -- simply because I've seen the original, which is fantastic and still -- today -- holds up almost too well. But, in reading a brief synopsis on a website, I was struck by how completely misnamed the remake is. They've updated the action to the Iraq/Kuwaiti War, it seems...which would make it strange to consider the victim of a brainwashing in the middle east to be a "manchurian" candidate. American geography is woeful enough as is -- and wouldn't it have saved some of the obvious jabs from naysayers to completely update it, name and all and call it something like the Arabian Candidate? Or Kuwaiti Candidate? I guess I'm just splitting hairs, but that's what I do sometimes. It also mentioned that the Liev Schreiber character was "campaigning" to be a VP candidate...last I checked, no one campaigns to be a Vice-President. I'm betting it's a misinterpretation via synopsis. I hate when that happens.