Bush curses Hezbollah during G-8 luncheon

U.S. President George W. Bush, right, gives the thumbs up during a meeting at the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday July 17, 2006. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called Monday for the deployment of international forces to stop the bombardment of Israel from southern Lebanon. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, pool)


I'm not sure what to say about this. This is from Yahoo News:

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - It wasn't meant to be overheard. Private luncheon conversations among world leaders, picked up by a microphone, provided a rare window into both banter and substance--including President Bush cursing Hezbollah's attacks against Israel.

Bush expressed his frustration with the United Nations and his disgust with the militant Islamic group and its backers in Syria as he talked to British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the closing lunch at the Group of Eight summit.

"See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s--- and it's over," Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll.

Here's the link a CNN Video of that Bushism quote, from the CNN story. Continuing with the Yahoo story:

He [Bush] told Blair he felt like telling U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan, who visited the gathered leaders, to get on the phone with Syrian President Bashar Assad to "make something happen." He suggested Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice might visit the region soon.

The unscripted comments came during a photo opportunity at the lunch. The leaders clearly did not realize that a live microphone was picking up their discussion.

America--This is who you elected as your leader! This is a man who has no clue as to how to formulate policy, or to use diplomacy--unless it is diplomacy by the gun! This is a man who doesn't even realize the hypocrisy of what he had just said. Consider this--President Bush ignored the United Nation's pleas to postpone the U.S. invasion of Iraq for more diplomatic negotiations, weapons inspections, and such. And yet now that Israel has invaded Lebanon, and has been feeling the heat of world condemnation, President Bush expects the U.N. take the lead in applying pressure on Syria to stop Hexbollah from making its attacks on Israel? How does President Bush expect Syria to respect the United Nations when his administration has contempt for the world organization?

Then there is this:

Bush expresses amazement that it will take some leaders as many as eight hours to fly home — about the same time it will take Air Force One with Bush aboard to return to Washington.

"You eight hours? Me, too. Russia's a big country and you're a big country," Bush said, at one point telling a waiter he wanted Diet Coke. "Takes him eight hours to fly home. Russia's big and so is China. Yeah Blair, what're you doing? Are you leaving."

I guess it shows just how intelligent President Bush really is.