The G8 summit is currently underway in St. Petersburg and it’s been revealed that President Bush has been caught speaking into an open microphone during a lunch-time conversation with other world leaders.
I’ll give you a brief summary, missing out the boring bits;
On the Middle East crisis: “The irony is, what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this sh!t, and it’s over.”
On presenting to the G8 leaders: “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.”
On the secretary-General of the United Nations: “What about Kofi Annan? I don’t like the sequence of it. His attitude is basically cease-fire and everything else happens.”
On flying to Washington from St. Petersburg: “You eight hours? Me too. Russia’s a big country and you’re a big country. Takes him eight hours to fly home.”
On sizes: “Russia’s big and so is China.”
On movement: “I just want some movement. Yesterday I didn’t see much movement. The desire to move.”
On leaving the summit: “Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight.”
Small talk with Tony Blair, the UK Prime Minister: “Yo Blair, what’re you doing? Are you leaving?”
It was also revealed that Bush drinks Diet Coke and that Tony Blair “absolutely” personally picked out a jumper given to Bush as a gift. I want to know what he’s got planned tonight though.