Bush: "We can have meetings. Talking is not the problem. We can talk to Iran"

Via Laura Rosen, Muckraked has this "that could explain why the White House got so bent out of shape by that NBC/Richard Engel interview the other week. Muckraked reports that it wasn't Bush's first interview with Engel, and Engel has a book coming out now drawing on a previous interview in which the president made some candid statements he may not be eager to see debated right now. Among POTUS' statements last year, according to Muckraked's read of Engel's book: "We'll be in Iraq forty years." And this: "The problem is Olmert. This is a man who came to power on a promise that he was going to unilaterally define a Palestinian state." (Welcome back to Washington, Ehud! ....) And also, this: "We can have meetings. Talking is not the problem. We can talk to Iran."