Bush on giving up golf: "I owe it to the families"

It's made CNN and a hundred golf blogs, so here -- complete and without comment -- is the Politico interview in which President Bush said he'd given up golf out of respect for the families of people dying in Iraq. (The video is attached.)

Here's the excerpt:

For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families.

"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," he said. "I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."

Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization's high commissioner for human rights.

"I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life," he said. "I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, 'It's just not worth it anymore to do.'"