Dreams of the screaming matches

Gonz

Gonz

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Oh, what could have been

LONDON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said, 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 which is against the war in Iraq.
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sounds like psy-ops to me
 
The Mirror quoted an unnamed British government official as saying Bush's threat was "humorous, not serious".
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So why bring it up at all, unless it was just to stir up some shit...
 
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today
that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever.

We begin bombing in five minutes."


Ronald Reagan
 
Doesn't sound like such a joke....

"He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere. Blair replied that would cause a big problem.

"There's no doubt what Bush wanted to do -- and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it."

Another source said: "Bush was deadly serious, as was Blair. That much is absolutely clear from the language used by both men."
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The newspaper said that the memo "casts fresh doubt on claims that other attacks on al-Jazeera were accidents". It cited the 2001 direct hit on the channel's Kabul office.
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I did a word search to see if it matched that article & the search came up blank even though cited is clearly there :shrug:
 
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