Desperate situation.

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At the recent G8 summit certain comments of GWB were caught thru an open mike and became public.

Specifically, regarding the current violence in the middle east, Bush was heard to say to Tony Blair "See, the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over".

THIS is the level of comprehension and insight that the 'leader of the free world' deems fit to share with his close ally about a complex and challenging situation like the middle east!?!?!

The mind boggles. It is extremely disconcerting if this sort of superficial, uninformed, reductionist blather is what Bush and Blair exchange in private between themselves while purporting to deal with world issues on an informed rational basis.

"... what they need to do ..." Who is this 'they' that either can or should do something??

"... get Syria to get Hezbollah ... " HOW to get Syria to do such a thing??

" ... the irony is ..." What irony?

" ... and it's over." Over??? Hundreds dead, infrastructure destroyed, Israel still in occupation of Palestinian lands and with the stated intention of damaging Hezbollah irrespective of any negotiations. This is somehow "over" in the president's mind?

Clearly the president of the United State does not merely portray a folksy approach for public consumption. Rather his knowledge of modern history and his grasp of complex challenges is in fact at an embarrassingly low level.

Can you imagine being Blair and having to pretend in thier private meetings that such banal idiocies constitite worthwhile observations? No wonder the poor man has obviously gone bonkers.

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