Bomb Al Jazeera
Up till now, I have refrained from commenting on the U.K. Daily Mirror's revelation yesterday that in 2004 Bush had planned to bomb Al Jazeera's main offices in Doha, Qatar, but that Tony Blair had talked him out of it. The Daily Mirror is not necessarily known for it's accuracy, and the accusation is so weird that I doubted it. However, the fact that the U.K. is now gagging the press under the Official Secrets Act and prosecuting two people for leaking the document suggests to me that there is substance to the claim. It also suggests that the other attacks on Al Jazeera by U.S. troops in Iraq may not have been the accidents the Pentagon claims they were. At least one reporter was killed.
Attacking reporters is bad enough, but threatening to bomb the offices of a news organization in a friendly country really seems to me to be beyond the pale. Just think for a moment of all the innocent employees, guests, and others who might have been killed if those offices had been bombed.
Any president who would seriously consider this kind of act should be impeached and convicted immediately. I fear the man is totally deranged.
Attacking reporters is bad enough, but threatening to bomb the offices of a news organization in a friendly country really seems to me to be beyond the pale. Just think for a moment of all the innocent employees, guests, and others who might have been killed if those offices had been bombed.
Any president who would seriously consider this kind of act should be impeached and convicted immediately. I fear the man is totally deranged.
posted by walldon | 3:05 PM
1 Comments:
If true, this is really weird, although not beyond believability for the current American regime.
Sadly, the bit about likely deaths among "innocent employees, guests, and others" is simply irrelevant to the considerations of the regime. In addition to the political and diplomatic "derangement", there is an utter lack of real morality there.
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