"I don't know how we can look our taxpayers in the eye and say, this is a good deal to give money to countries that are corrupt."

G-8 stuff:

"I don't know how we can look our taxpayers in the eye and say, this is a good deal to give money to countries that are corrupt," he said. "We want to make sure that the governments invest in their people, invest in the health of their people, the education of their people, and fight corruption."

HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA HA HA HA

I'm sorry. I'm actually crying from laughing so hard. This president is such a schmuck.

The differences were even starker on global warming. Blair wanted a plan to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. But U.S. officials lobbied to prevent the inclusion in the G-8 communique of any specific reduction targets as called for in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The United States is the only G-8 country that has refused to ratify the Kyoto treaty, with Bush saying that doing so would have "wrecked" the U.S. economy.

That's even more hilarious! BUSHWACKED has already "wrecked" the U.S. economy. But, hey, it's an AP story, so you get the news from the news sources you have (ha ha ha).

Bush said in Denmark that "the surface of the Earth is warmer and that an increase in greenhouse gases caused by humans is contributing to the problem."

However, he made plain that mandatory targets are off the table. He referred repeatedly to the Kyoto treaty in the past tense, even though it took effect in February, and said the goal for his plan is to control greenhouse gases merely "as best as possible."

Bush said he "can't wait" to talk with summit colleagues about the United States' alternative proposed approach, which stresses spreading clean-energy technologies to both developed and developing nations.

AS BEST AS POSSIBLE? Oh, come on.

I guess I must be in a giggly mood, because all of this just makes me laugh. Bush may be able to get away with such homilies here in the good ole US of A, but he's out in the REAL WORLD, now. Everytime he opens his mouth, I hear a collective groan from those within earshot.