“Why don’t we just kill ’im?” Bush asked, to nervous laughter around the room.
McCrystal did not know it at the time, but this was a running joke in the situation room. No one was ever mentioned without the president asking that question.
Sometimes, it was funny, like when someone mentioned the Prime Minister of Canada. Sometimes it was awkward, like when someone mentioned his father.
But George W. Bush had a joke, and he was the President, and what was the point of being President If you cannot make everyone laugh uncomfortably at your joke?
