With friends like these...
Heard the one about George Bush wanting to drop bombs on Al Jazeera in friendly Qatar?No?
Apparently there was a punchline in there somewhere.
Maybe the bomb would have been the punchline.
Are we honestly expected to believe that Bush's comments to Blair were in jest?
Okay, enough of the question marks. Yesterday's Daily Mirror quoted an unnamed government official as saying the threats were 'humourous, not serious' which is a pretty good joke in itself. It's no secret that Washington can't stand Al Jazeera seeing as they have bombed the station before:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/jaz-n21_prn.shtml
One little ray of light to come out of this story is Tony Blair's stance on it all. When the President
suggested bombing the network Blair's response was reportedly concrete, a very definite 'no'. Whether excessive use of conciliatory hand gestures formed part of the response remains unconfirmed, although I'd like to bet it did.
It's just a little reassuring to hear that Blair isn't just Bush's hand puppet, ready and willing to carry out monkey face's bidding. Let's face it, if bombing a TV network in a an allied territory is the little tyke's idea of a joke, someone needs to make sure he doesn't get hold of a box of matches.
Oh wait, I guess he already did, didn't he?
posted by Phu @ 3:48 pm
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