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Bush to militants: 'Stop doing this shit!'
US President George W. Bush said on Monday that he was sending US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East "soon" and that militants attacking Israel must "stop doing this shit".
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 July 17, 2006
Saint Petersburg: US President George W. Bush said on Monday that he was sending US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East "soon" and that militants attacking Israel must "stop doing this shit".
He just didn't know that anyone could hear him. But an open microphone at the Group of Eight summit leaders lunch captured every word as he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair candidly hashed over global events.
Bush, chomping on a piece of bread and calling for a diet Coke, confided that "Condi's going to go pretty soon." He did not specify where. "The irony is, what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it's over," Bush replied without specifying who "they" are.
The recording picked up as Bush, apparently expected to make remarks, declared: "I'm just going to make it up. I'm not going to talk too damn long like the rest of them. Some of these guys talk too long. Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight."
The president and Blair also seemed to express frustration about UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, with Bush suggesting that Annan thinks that a ceasefire by itself will resolve the conflict.
"What about Kofi Annan? I don't like the sequence of it. His attitude is basically ceasefire and everything else happens," said Bush.
Bush also made quite a bit of small talk with other leaders about how long it takes to get home after a summit like this. "I gotta leave by 2:15. They want me out of town so they can free up your security forces," he said, apparently to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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