7.18.2006
Yo Blair! Bush And Blair Unplugged (Newswire.co.nz)
2:07 PM, 18 Jul 2006
United States President, George W Bush, has described what Hezbollah is doing in Lebanon as “shit” in an unguarded conversation recorded by a television camera.
President Bush’s informal chat with British Prime Minister Tony Blair was picked up at the end of the G8 morning session in St Petersburg by a Russian media microphone and broadcast around the world.
The conversation shows Mr Bush and Mr Blair get on so well that the President greets the Prime Minister with the words “Yo, Blair. How are you doin’?”
In “Bush and Blair unplugged”, the U.S. President expresses his delight at being given a present, apparently a Burberry sweater, by his British friend.
On the unfolding Middle East conflict, Mr Bush suggested a solution. “The thing is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over,” he told Mr Blair. The “they” was widely presumed to be Russia.
A transcript of their exchange also reveals that Mr Blair volunteered for the task of going to the Middle East and taking the heat ahead of a visit by “Condi”, or U.S. Secretary of State. Condoleezza Rice.
Asked what Mr Bush said when told his comments were overheard, White House spokesman Tony Snow said: "His reaction first was 'What did I say?', so we showed him the transcript, then he rolled his eyes and laughed."
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United States President, George W Bush, has described what Hezbollah is doing in Lebanon as “shit” in an unguarded conversation recorded by a television camera.
President Bush’s informal chat with British Prime Minister Tony Blair was picked up at the end of the G8 morning session in St Petersburg by a Russian media microphone and broadcast around the world.
The conversation shows Mr Bush and Mr Blair get on so well that the President greets the Prime Minister with the words “Yo, Blair. How are you doin’?”
In “Bush and Blair unplugged”, the U.S. President expresses his delight at being given a present, apparently a Burberry sweater, by his British friend.
On the unfolding Middle East conflict, Mr Bush suggested a solution. “The thing is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over,” he told Mr Blair. The “they” was widely presumed to be Russia.
A transcript of their exchange also reveals that Mr Blair volunteered for the task of going to the Middle East and taking the heat ahead of a visit by “Condi”, or U.S. Secretary of State. Condoleezza Rice.
Asked what Mr Bush said when told his comments were overheard, White House spokesman Tony Snow said: "His reaction first was 'What did I say?', so we showed him the transcript, then he rolled his eyes and laughed."
(More ... Yo Blair! Bush And Blair Unplugged) ¶ 19:36
