"The sh*t heard 'round the world..." - President Bush at his best.

A nice little insight into the Blair/Bush relationship, and how they view the Middle East conflict:

Bush: Yo Blair How are you doing?
Blair: I'm just...
Bush: You're leaving?
Blair: No, no, no not yet. On this trade thingy...[inaudible]

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Bush: You see, the ... thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this sh*t and it's over." [full transcript]

Get the news story that covers the circumstances of this conversation being overhead here.

Get the audio/video of the conversation at CNN (currently the most poular video on the mainpage).

Update: In response to Prof. Antonio's comment below, I did not intend to disparage Bush's choice of words or character ... I would invite my readers to read the full transcript of the exchange to appreciate the context in which Bush made his rather colorful statement. Apologies for the confusion...