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Bush Uncensored: President Uses Expletive During Chat At G8 Summit

Yesterday during the closing lunch at the G8 summit, a stray microphone picked up a private conversation between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Bush is seen munching on a buttered roll and using an expletive to express frustration with Hezbollah. Watch it:

SkyNews has a full transcript. Bush was caught on tape on several other occasions:

In another segment in which the president was apparently speaking to an aide who asked about his plan for upcoming remarks, Mr. Bush said, “I’m just going to make it up, right here — I’m not going to talk too damn long like the rest of them.” [...]

At another moment, Mr. Bush was clearly itching to return to the White House, saying to someone, “Good job, gotta keep this thing moving “” I gotta’ leave at 2:15 “” you’ll want me out of town so to free up your security forces.” .

Gotta go home. Got something to do tonight,” Mr. Bush said, then, apparently turning to Mr. Hu, adding, “How about you? When are you going home?”

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Former Vice President Dan Quayle

walked out of a John Mellencamp concert over the weekend because the singer dedicated his song “Walk Tall” to “everyone hurt by policies of the current Bush administration.” The song’s lyrics include: “Bigotry and hatred are enemies to us all/ Grace, mercy and forgiveness/ Will help a man walk tall.”

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ThinkFast: July 17, 2006

Several suspected Hezbollah rockets hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa today. The sixth day of the brewing conflict in the Middle East witnessed Israeli ground troops briefly entering southern Lebanon to attack Hezbollah bases on the border. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for the deployment of international forces to stop the violence. Meanwhile, G8 leaders “crafted a plan to stop the fighting.”

In “one of the bloodiest incidents in Iraq this year,” a bomber attacked a market just outside Baghdad today. Officials put the death toll as low as 40 and as high as 70.

Journalist Akbar Ganji, Iran’s “most prominent dissident,” said the war in Iraq has hurt his country’s reform movement by giving its regime an excuse to stifle dissent. “What has happened in Iraq did not support our movement in any significant way,” he said.

Four years after the G-8 nations pledged “$20 billion over 10 years to prevent terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials, only $3.5 billion has been donated — and far less has been used to secure enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon.”

A $600 million shortfall at the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hurting local agencies that are “already struggling to meet community needs for affordable housing.” On top of the shortfall, President Bush has eliminated $1.7 billion in public housing funds since he took office. Read more

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