Its been revealed today that Blair talked Bush out of bombing our Middle East ally Qatar. Bush clearly needs help in figuring out what exactly is a wise thing to do in the middle east during a war. Bombing news outlets that aren't favorable to his foreign policy is not one of them. I wonder how he'd take it if someone bombed FoxNews?
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.
The attack would have led to a massacre of innocents on the territory of a key ally, enraged the Middle East and almost certainly have sparked bloody retaliation.
A source said last night: "The memo is explosive and hugely damaging to Bush.
"He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere. Blair replied that would cause a big problem [...]
The No 10 memo now raises fresh doubts over US claims that previous attacks against al-Jazeera staff were military errors.
2 comments:
I wish this was something from the Onion...
its just embarassing that Blair had to give him a heads up that THAT's a bad idea!
jesus.
how many times do i need to say THAT phrase!?
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