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fr_defenestratoQUESTION: Mr. President... You said that the increase in attacks is unsettling. That won't convince many people [who believe] that you're still in denial about how bad things are in Iraq...
PRESIDENT BUSH: It's bad in Iraq. Does that help?
The Washington Post actually reported a version that was one word terser: "That help?" In either case, NO, Mr. President, IT DOESN'T fucking help, you miserable, disgraceful child. I know it's a vain fantasy, that it would take a miracle for any judicial body we may see evolve in your lifetime to equate (a) your brutal, cavalier attitude toward U.S. participation in unwinnable combat with (b) premeditated murder, but I would like nothing more out of this life than to see you tried for war crimes and sent to a particularly rat-infested prison with a particularly mean-spirited head chef, there to hear your captors pronounce, every time you came up for parole, that it was important to the national interest to "stay the course" and keep you locked up.
PRESIDENT BUSH: It's bad in Iraq. Does that help?
The Washington Post actually reported a version that was one word terser: "That help?" In either case, NO, Mr. President, IT DOESN'T fucking help, you miserable, disgraceful child. I know it's a vain fantasy, that it would take a miracle for any judicial body we may see evolve in your lifetime to equate (a) your brutal, cavalier attitude toward U.S. participation in unwinnable combat with (b) premeditated murder, but I would like nothing more out of this life than to see you tried for war crimes and sent to a particularly rat-infested prison with a particularly mean-spirited head chef, there to hear your captors pronounce, every time you came up for parole, that it was important to the national interest to "stay the course" and keep you locked up.
