Quotable: George Bush on Osama Bin Laden

Posted By Blake Hounshell Monday, February 19, 2007 - 6:25 PM Share

Speaking of Osama Bin Laden—children, avert your eyes. Here's Haaretz relaying a passage from Uri Dan's new biography of Ariel Sharon:

Speaking of George Bush, with whom Sharon developed a very close relationship, Uri Dan recalls that Sharon's delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him: "I will screw him in the a**!"

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