Bush puts his foot in it - on mic

[tzarinna]

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By Olivier Knox

St Petersburg - US President George Bush, caught on an open microphone at a summit, suggested on Monday that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would travel to the Middle East "pretty soon".

Bush, chomping on a piece of bread at a world leaders' lunch, also told British Prime Minister Tony Blair that a key to defusing the violence in the region was for "Hezbollah to stop doing this *****, and it's over".

"She's going. I think Condi's going to go pretty soon," said the president. He did not specify a destination but Rice is widely expected to travel to the Middle East when a UN fact-finding mission returns later this week.

The president and Blair also seemed to express frustration about UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan

Blair offered to go himself if "she needs the ground prepared as it were", explaining that the stakes for him would be lower: "If she goes out shes got to succeed, as it were, whereas I can just go out and talk."

"The irony is, what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this *****, and it's over," Bush replied without specifying who "they" are.

The president's remarks were caught at the Group of Eight summit's official television network, which filmed the leaders having lunch.

The recording picked up as Bush, apparently expected to make remarks, declares: "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."

 

[JLBats]

Fascinating.

 

[Kaleb]

I dont see what the big deal is really ? so he swears big deal.

 

[Spider-X]

so the man says sh#t when he's not miked...what an abomination

i mean..i hate the guy...but this is a sorry attempt at making him look bad.

 

[TheSumOfGod]

Lord help us.

 

[Movies205]

Ya... there's noting bad here

 

[Sabretooth]

...


REPTILIANS!

 

[jaguarr]

Other than demonstrating that he's a hypocrite for using a lot of foul language, which sort of goes against the grain of the good Christian he paints himself to be, I don't see the big deal.

jag

 

[Kaleb]

I for one would like to hear him swear more in the public eye

 

[Spider-X]

real stuff:

that was when he was waiting to go on the air once.

so this is nothing new really.

 

[Whirlysplat]

It's really funny when you watch Blair realise and switch the mike off.

- Whirly

 

[Weir]

anyone have the video of this??? I want to hear!

 

[Whirlysplat]

anyone have the video of this??? I want to hear!

It's been all over the News tomight so it should be on youtube by now.

- Whirly

 

[Kaleb]

its on the cnn.com as well,

cause cnn is where I get my news from .

 

[Superman]

I saw it on CNN, They didn't bleep it the first time they played it. I was like but then I laughed. I thought it was great.

 

[J. J. Jameson]

Mr. Bush! Wash your mouth out with soap!

 

[JLBats]

Whoa, Bush used the word irony in regular, unscripted conversation. Creepy.

You'd almost think he's, uh... faking his idiocy and he's actually some sort of EVIL GENIUS

 

[GoldGoblin]

I dont see what the big deal is really ? so he swears big deal.

^Yeah,he's a freakin human being.

 

[Gamma Ray]

George Bush is bada$$!

 

[J. J. Jameson]

I would like to see him give a public address about this. i would post that on YouTube.

 

[tzarinna]

It so funny, him with his mouth full of food talking mad smack

 

[Gonking]

Is a really funny president.

 

[J. J. Jameson]

Not as bad as Nixon:

"I think I'll have the **** and the **** with alittle of that **** on the side. ****, I didn't want that. Forgive my **** language."

 

[Whirlysplat]

I dont see what the big deal is really ? so he swears big deal.

T'he swearing is not the big issue.

- Whirly

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

"The irony is, what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this *****, and it's over," Bush replied without specifying who "they" are.

I think we all know who "THEY" are.