Transcript of Bush candid comments at G8 Summit
Jul 18th, 2006 by jimmoore
Coutesy of MSNBC here.
Not
realizing his remarks were being picked up by a microphone, President
Bush bluntly expressed his frustration with Hezbollah, and his
preference for diet Coke during the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg. Read
a transcript of his comments:
Bush to Putin: I gotta leave by 2:15. They want me out of town so they can free up your security forces.
No, just going to make it up. I’m not going to talk too long like the rest of them. Some of these guys talk too long.
Gotta
go home. Got something to do tonight. How about you? Where are you
going home? This is your neighborhood doesn’t take you long to get
home.
You eight
hours? Me too. Russia’s a big country and you’re a big country. Takes
him eight hours to fly home. Not Coke, diet Coke. Russia’s big and so
is China.
Yo, Blair. What are you doing? Are you leaving?
Blair: No, not yet. On this trade thing…
Bush:
Yeah, I told that to (inaudible). If you want me to. I just want some
movement. Yesterday I didn’t see much movement. The desire to move.
Blair: It may be that it’s impossible.
Bush: I’ll be glad to say. Who’s introducing me?
Blair: Angela
Bush: Well tell her to call on it. Well, tell her to put me on the spot.
Thanks for the sweater; it was awfully thoughtful of you. I know you picked it out yourself.
Blair: Oh, absolutely!
What about Kofi Annan? I don’t like the sequence of it. His attitude is basically cease-fire and everything else happens.
I think the thing that is really difficult is you can’t stop this unless you get this international presence agreed.
Bush: She’s going. I think Condi’s going to go pretty soon.
Blair: Well that’s all that matters. If you see, it will take some time to get out of there. But at least it gives people…
Bush: It’s a process I agree. I told her your offer too.
Blair:
Well it’s only…or if she’s gonna or if she needs the ground prepared as
it were. See if she goes out, she’s got to succeed as it were, where as
I can just go out and talk.
Bush: See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s— and it’s over.
Blair:
Because I think this is all part of the same thing. What does he think?
He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if he gets a solution in Israel
and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way, he’s done it. That’s what
this whole things about. It’s the same with Iran.
Bush:
I felt like telling Kofi to get on the phone with Assad and make
something happen. We’re not blaming Israel and we’re not blaming the
Lebanese government.