Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Bush Considered Bombing Al-Jazeera?

According to the Mirror, one of the UK's most popular newspapers, our beloved president had thoughts of bombing Arabic news network Al-Jazeera, which has not exactly hid its opinion of the Bush administration. At first even I was going to give POTUS the benefit of the doubt and say that the words were probably just expressed in anger. That changed after I saw a following report that the British government "has warned media organi[z]ations they are breaking the law" if they published any details of this alleged memo. What better way to give legitimacy to a story than to use the power of government to try to ban it? I do not know what Bush was smoking when he made this statement, but considering how journalists are now on the chopping block here, the idea of him thinking about bombing a network that disagrees with him may be frightening, but not surprising.

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