Posted on 11/21/2005 5:58:26 PM PST by jmc1969
PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals.
But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash.
A source said: "There's no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it." Al-Jazeera is accused by the US of fuelling the Iraqi insurgency.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
And the problem is?
What a load of sh@t. We wouldn't bomb a building in a country where we had based a large number of our forces. At least they could come up with something that is plausible.
The Democrats and NY Times will have this story ramped up tomorrow. Headline: The documents are fake, but the charges we believe are true.
Glad I stocked up on tin foil. Never know when it will come in handy.
And we should believe this drivel because.... ?
Eww, while he's at it how bout, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC...
Only a moron would believe it, the administation didn't even have the spine that Allawi had to kick al-jazerqaeda out of Iraq.
I wish I could believe it.
I wish I could believe it.
Probably shi'ite from Jihad Galloway..
"And we should believe this drivel because.... ?"
Hey, didn't you read the article? "A source said." What more do you need?
I read it, I read it....and I don't believe any article that says "our source says". :-)
I'm sick of the british putting out this crap.
good thing it was top secret,
"And we should believe this drivel because.... ?"
Because we want to ( if we = liberal wingnut leftest).
If this were going to be done it would have been long ago.
It may be that Al Jezeera is plaining some vindictive pro dem partisan bradcasting to disallusion the now sensitized wing nut dems in our country, and they are making sure that Bush is disempowered from bombing them as a result.
The moment Al Jezeera braodcast the beheadings of hostages, I lost any consideration I would have had for them. I say bomb the bastards and be done with it, take out all of their affiliates also.
Who was the source, pray tell? Is this another "anonymous source" who is no doubt "close to the administration"?
It is way too easy to fabricate this crap these days, and it's not like we don't have examples of when this has been done by the MSM, either (cough, cough - Mapes - cough).
While there are probably merits to blanking Al-Qaeda TV (Otherwise known as Al-Jazeera), I doubt that they would bomb Qatar after all the support we have received from them.
Here's what Clinton said in 1999 after bombing that Serbian TV station:
"Our military leaders at Nato believe, based on what they have seen and what others in the area have told them, that the Serb television is an essential instrument of Mr Milosevic´s command and control. He uses it to spew hatred and basically to spread disinformation. It is not, in a conventional sense, therefore, a media outlet."
Look out ALJAZ and CNN...
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