excerpt from surreal bush interview

I kid you not, this is a verbatum transcript of one strange moment in a very strange interview. Apparently the interview was broadcast on Irish television, on the eve of Bush's recent visit. Listen to the whole thing here.

. . . i wish they could have seen the seven men that came to see me in the oval office -- they had their right hands cut off by saddam hussein because the currency had devalued when he was the leader, see? guess what happened? and americans saw the fact that they had been, had their hands cut off and crosses or x's carved in their forehead and he flew them to america and they came to my office with a new hand, grateful for the generosity of america and -- with saddam hussein's brutality in their mind -- now look, saddam hussein had weap - used weapons of mass destruction against his own people, against the neighborhood -- he was a brutal dictator who posed a threat -- such a threat that the united nations voted unanimously to say mr. saddam hussein . . .