grab your vomit bag! make sure you have spares!

 
There's a truly extraordinary interview reported by the BBC today with Our Beloved Leader. You can find it in full at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/7400213.stm. Here are some extracts:

Bush bemoans 'flawed' Iraq data

President George W Bush has said he was disappointed in "flawed intelligence" in the run-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. [snip]

In an interview with internet portal Yahoo and newspaper Politico, he also explained why he had given up golf.

"I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal," he said.

Carter criticised [snip]

"I remember when de Mello . . . got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life. And I was playing golf . . . and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it's just not worth it anymore." [snip]

The president also criticised former President Jimmy Carter, who said recently the next US leader should commit to avoiding torturing prisoners or invading nations unless its own security was threatened.

Mr Bush said the US did not torture and suggested Mr Carter was advocating a policy of courting popularity.

"Popularity is fleeting . . . principles are forever," Mr Bush said. [snip]

The president also touched on other key issues:

• Global warming: "I could have supported a lousy treaty and everybody would have went, 'Oh, man, what a wonderful sounding fellow he is'. But it just wouldn't have worked." [snip]

A couple of the friends to whom I forwarded the entire piece reported independently -- and quite genuinely -- that at first they'd thought I must have pulled something from The Onion. Alas, no.

STOP PRESS: One of those same friends has just told me Il Buce has now announced on the radio from Israel that he wants to defeat "the enemies of hatred".