Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station-No 10 memo reveals

22 November 2005
EXCLUSIVE: BUSH PLOT TO BOMB HIS ARAB ALLY
Madness of war memo
By Kevin Maguire And Andy Lines

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.

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

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16397937%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=bush%2dplot%2dto%2dbomb%2dhis%2darab%2dally%2d-name_page.html

AND THIS FROM ALJAZEERA:

Memo: Bush wanted Aljazeera bombed

Tuesday 22 November 2005, 14:38 Makka Time, 11:38 GMT

The memo has been described as 'hugely damaging to Bush'

US President George Bush planned to bomb Arab broadcaster Aljazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror has reported, citing a Downing Street memo marked top secret.

The five-page transcript of a conversation between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals that Blair talked Bush out of launching a military strike on the station, unnamed sources told the daily.

The transcript of the pair's talks during Blair's 16 April 2004 visit to Washington allegedly shows Bush wanted to attack the satellite channel's headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FA5DC791-B0D3-418E-9946-87162E6C6EC1.htm

If it just drops into the vast netherworld of the internet that would be a shame.

We wouldn't be in the dire energy mess we are in today. And, as such, we wouldn't need to be friends with the Saudis or anybody else who thinks the West is a vile place, home of the infidel, or anything else.

Assuming peak oil is real, of course, and I'd say there's a good chance it is.

You know, the part where Tony Blair talked Bush out of doing it.

I didn't know you could talk Bush out of doing anything. Apparently you can.

Perhaps he was just jokin' around when he said he was gonna bomb al-Jazeera, because if he was serious about it he would have done it.

something comes out that enlarges my view of the possible. In some ways idiot son is truly amazing.

Bush 'wanted to bomb Arab TV station' Tuesday November 22, 11:20 AM

Downing Street is facing calls to publish a transcript of a conversation in which Tony Blair allegedly persuaded George Bush to drop plans to bomb Arab TV station Al-Jazeera.

According to reports, in a memo Bush said he wanted to attack the TV station in Qatar - a key Middle East ally of the west.

And it allegedly details how Mr Blair argued against an attack on the station's buildings in the capital city of Doha, saying it would lead to retaliation.

The transcript allegedly records a conversation during Mr Blair's visit to the White House on April 16 last year, in the wake of a failed attempt to root out insurgents in the city of Fallujah, in which 30 US Marines died.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22112005/356/bush-wanted-bomb-arab-tv-station.html

That tears it! He is as dumb as i thought he was.
The Professor

Of course, the shit-bomb he and his minions at freakrepublic released on Rather and Mapes (with their phony "printer analysis", etc., concerning the story of Bush's AWOL episode) was effective enough that he didn't have to physically annihilate them--yet.

I take the Daily Mirror with several grains of salt, so want to see more proof.

But if that's true it ought to be the straw that breaks the camel's back, in terms of public support for the administration. Bombing a media outlet in another country -- not even in Iraq?

And that's different than Osama how?

I could see this plot being set in 2003...either before or immediately following the invasion, when Al Jazeerah was being the biggest pain in this regime's side. Supposedly the network's Baghdad headquarters were targeted several times...but that was a year earlier.

By April, 2004, the insurgency was well underway and Al Jazeera's role was negligable at best. The only thing I could see what would have prompted this boooosh mind-fart was the beheadings of Nicholas Berg and others...but then I'm not sure if that had occured at the time.

Overall, this sounds like Astroturfing for the wingnuts. Ya think Joe Dittohead will be outraged when he finds out his manchild tried to bomb that evil Arab network? Hell no. Even if he didn't really think that up, it sure sounds good when you don't have a lot of friends and this is one of the few ways you hang on to the ones you do.