Coke? give me a diet, and how about that Koffi?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/17/AR2006071700187.html?nav=rss_politics

Bush's Bull Session: Loud And Clear, Chief

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 18, 2006; Page C01

ST. PETERSBURG, July 17 -- President Bush should know that in Russia, someone is always listening. In this case, it was the rest of the world.

It did not take a KGB bug to overhear the leader of the free world carp about long-winded counterparts, grumble about the U.N. secretary general and cuss out the rocket-launching radicals in the Middle East. It only took an open microphone -- one the president clearly didn't know about -- at the closing lunch of the Group of Eight summit that ended here on Monday.

"What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it's over," an irritated Bush said with his mouth full as he buttered a piece of bread.

"Who, Syria?" asked British Prime Minister Tony Blair, standing next to the seated Bush.

"Right," Bush said.

Right, indeed. It was the sort of moment that gets technicians fired but offers the world a rare glimpse of a president unplugged. After days of polite diplo-speak, reading from talking points and sticking to the script, here was the unguarded Bush, the impatient Bush, the small-talking Bush marveling at how long it takes to fly around the world and asking the waiter to make sure his Coke was diet.