Shiite!

Best of the Best of the Best at Opinion Journal. Here's a funny excerpt (but read the whole thing):

…Reuters reports from St. Petersburg, Russia:

A microphone picked up an unaware President Bush saying on Monday Syria should press Hezbollah to "stop doing this [scatological vulgarity]" and that his secretary of state may go to the Middle East soon.

Reuters, which considers terrorism [i.e.the word "terrrorism"] taboo, actually quotes the vulgarity, which we've omitted, in part because this Web site is published by a family newspaper and in part because we're not sure the president didn't actually say "Shiite."

These Shiite stirrings…