Posted by
ForNow on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:53:24 AM
A London Times article: "President Bush’s uncomplicated view of world events was laid bare yesterday...."
That article omits, and all the transcripts omit, and even the account at Expose The Left omits (though they have the video where you can HEAR it) a word, replaces it with "thing." Bush didn't just say:
"You see, the thing is, what they need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s--- and it’s over."
Instead, Bush said:
"You see, the irony is, what they need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s--- and it's over."
Watch it at
Expose the Left http://tinyurl.com/pr7oz (The actual URL contains that obscene word and probably would be stopped by the auto-censor).
Bush is saying that a lot of complicated efforts are misdirected. The irony, I guess, that the shortest path to ending the problem is a path that many people don't want to take.
UPDATE: This other London Times online article got the quote right in the body of the article but wrong in its transcript: