Please, let me explain

I would like to be at the ... have been given a chance for us to explain that we have no desire to harm the Iranian people.

-- George Bush,
Feb. 14, 2007

When George Bush notices that he has to explain how he doesn't really want to harm people, it's pretty clear he finally recognizes that the world very much believes he does want to harm people or, at the very least, doesn't give a shit. In the realm of opinion polls, that's called being "in the hole."