Heart to heart

Maliki's been in Tehran, meeting with the Iranian leaders, so Bush sets him straight:

In a muted warning to his Iraqi counterpart, President Bush said today that Iran was a destabilizing factor in the Middle East, and he promised that if Prime Minister Nouri Maliki did not share that view he would have a "heart to heart" talk with him.

I wonder a non-muted warning would have sounded like. The schizophrenic US policy in Iraq is enough to drive Maliki to madness, I would imaging. It must be comforting to talk to sane, sensible people like the Iranians.

If I could make a simple request, it's this: Please George, Feckless Leader of us all, go on vacation for a while, ride your bike, cut brush, but please just shut the fuck up. You make my head hurt.