The Elder Statesman

Oh, god, I'm SO glad the adults are in charge:

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (CNN) -- U.S. President George W. Bush expressed frustration Monday at attempts to get U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to do more to end the conflict in Lebanon.
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Bush: See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this sh*t and it's over.[edited]

What's he going to be like when he gets OUT of office?

And WTF do we need to be going to Syria for, anyway? Oh, THAT'S right. Lebanon's government isn't powerful enough to stop Hezbollah. Boy, isn't it a good thing we got those Syrian troops out of Lebanon...

And as far as the whole Mideast thing goes, if CNN shows one more goddamn context-free picture of some bomb damage, I'm going to throttle Wolf Spritzer with Daryn Caveman's intestines. That's really constructive there, folks - who's been bombed? What's this I'm looking at? Aw, who cares? Time to get another pasty white guy on to bloviate about fighting terrorism.