In St. Petersburg, Russia at the G8 Summit yesterday a frank conversation was recorded between Bush and Blair…
It’s always nice to hear the president representing the stature of the US Government so candidly and putting those Brits in their place….
Overheard at the G8:
Bush: Yo, Blair. How iz ya doin’?
Blair: I’m just…
Bush: You’re bouncin’!?
Blair: No, no, no not yet. On this trade thingy….(inaudible) (Mr Blair is getting anxious that the World Trade Organisation is falling apart because some nations, including the US, are putting domestic interests before a worldwide free trade agreement)
Bush: Yeah… I told that to the man.
Blair: Are you planning to say that here or not?
Bush: Yeah you know I’ll set dem foo’s straight!
Blair: Well, it’s just that if the discussion arises…
Bush: I just wan’ some movement. ya heard?
Blair: Yeah.
Bush: Yesterday we didn’t see nothin’
Blair: No, no, it may be that it’s not, it may be that it’s impossible.
Bush: I am prepared to say it…that mu-fucka’s useless
Blair: But it’s just I think what we need to be an opposition…
Bush: Who is introducing the trade thingie?
Blair: Angela (The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will lead the trade discussion. That is good for Mr Blair. She is on his side.)
Bush: Tell her to call me yo… she’s lookin’ hawt in that blue blazer today
Blair: Yes.
Bush: Tell her to put that mu-fuck on the spot. Thanks for the gear yo! Shit was bling!
Blair: It’s a pleasure.
Bush: You picked it out yo’self?
Blair: Oh, absolutely, in fact (inaudible)
Bush: What about that fucker Kofi? (inaudible) His ‘tude gets to me… (Change of subject. Now they are on to Lebanon and the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan)
Blair: Yeah, no I think the (inaudible) is really difficult. We can’t stop this unless you get this international business agreed.
Bush: Word. (Mr Blair is trying to push the idea of a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon. That ‘yeah’ does not sound like a wholehearted agreement)
Blair: I don’t know what you guys have talked about, but as I say I am perfectly happy to try and see what the lie of the land is, but you need that done quickly because otherwise it will spiral. (Meaning: ‘Please, George, let me go to the Middle East and be a world statesman’)
Bush: I think Condi’ gonna go and tell ’em how it is. (Meaning: ‘No’ we’ll take care of it)
Blair: But that’s, that’s, that’s all that matters. But if you… you see it will take some time to get that together. (Meaning: ‘Oh well, all right, if you don’t want me to. Harumph’)
Bush: Yup Yup, we got it handled…
Blair: But at least it gives people…
Bush: Now Blair, let’s just let us handle. I told her your offer… (Meaning: ‘Drop it. You’re not going.’)
Blair: Well… it’s only if I mean… you know. If she’s got a…, or if she needs the ground prepared as it were… Because obviously if she goes out, she’s got to succeed, if it were, whereas I can go out and just talk.
Bush: “You see, the … thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over.” (Actual Quote – Mr Bush is expressing his belief that Syria is pulling Hizbollah’s strings, while Mr Blair is hinting the Syrians might be up to no good as well)
Blair: (inaudible)
Bush: (inaudible)
Blair: Syria.
Bush: Why?
Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thing.
Bush: Yeah.
Blair: What does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if we get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way… (Here they might be talking about Kofi Annan, or they may mean the Syrian President, Bashir Assad)
Bush: Yeah, yeah, he is sweeeeeet!. (Mr Bush is probably being sarcastic)
Blair: He is honey. And that’s what the whole thing is about. It’s the same with Iraq.
Bush: I felt like telling Kofi to call up Assad and make some shit happen.
Blair: Yeah.
Bush: (inaudible)
Blair:(inaudible)
Bush: We are not blaming the Lebanese government, I mean we could handle it proper but who wants that now?
Blair: Is this on…? (at this point Blair taps the microphone in front of him and the sound is cut.)
Original Transcript
Yo Bush! Blair mocked as US poodle [Reuters: Jul 18, 2006 9:27am]