This would be funny if it wasn't so scary.

At a U.N. Security Council meeting yesterday, President Bush was caught asking for a permission slip to go make peepees.

That's right, the note he was photographed writing reads:

I think I MAY NEED A BATHROOM BREAK? Is this possible

Despite the frustrating abuse of punctuation, lest you think this is an amusing fake like the already-circulating picture of Dubya and Poppy fishing in Lake New Orleans that I've received three times via e-mail at this point, read this from Editor and Publisher:

The photo, which appeared on Reuters' official photo site, was quickly published all over the Web, though dismissed by some as a likely photoshop special. Others suggestged that surely someone must have hacked the Reuters site. But a Reuters spokesman on Thursday told E&P the photo was legit.

"The photographer and editors on this story were looking for other angles in their coverage of this event, something that went beyond the stock pictures of talking heads that these kind of forums usually offer," explained Reuters' Stephen Naru. "This picture certainly does that."

Indeed.