Bush Bombs Again

George W and his regime are increasingly seen, by many people around the world, as a danger to decent civilised standards.
News that he had discussed a plan to bomb the Al-Jazeera satellite channel's headquarters in Qatar, while not surprising, is nonetheless horrifying.
We are talking here of the self appointed saviours of the free world, the President and administration of the USA. Those wild adventurers, who in the name of a war on terrorism have put us all into personal peril of savage reprisal.
Bush's alleged comments about bombing Al-Jazeera's building in Doha are reported to be contained in a note of the meeting, with Britain’s Tony Blair, at the White House on April 16 last year.
Fortunately leaders of other allied countries face far more thorough scrutiny and criticism that that allowed in the US.
Criticism is not met, as in the US, with personal attack and vilification. The kind of attacks, on the likes of Murtha in the US, those who would question policy, would be a costly political exercise.
What is curious is that a country which glories in the language of free speech and free press is so ready to be cowered by their own leaders who demonstrate a willingness to attack those very freedoms at home and elsewhere.

Strategically, in the so called ‘war on terrorism’ the fact of the plan, revelations aside, evidences an unspoken agenda by the Bush covin.
Al-Jazeera is not friendly to the Bush administration, but that does not mean they are actively supporting terror campaign.
They are journalists, reporting events to their readership, as they perceive them. Much like US media outlets, which tailor the news you get, filtering out anything which might give cause for doubt.
The US administration would have us believe that all Islamists are terrorists, but Al-Jazeera does not hold the reverse, they simply report the truth they see.
There have been strong suspicions that their offices in Kabul and Baghdad were deliberately targeted by the Pentagon in 2001 and 2003 respectively.
This leaked memo gives currency to those suspicions, and widens the rift created by the ill-founded strategies to date.
The scandals surrounding the Washington political establishment are a mix of, terror related, double dealing and financial plunder.
That in itself creates a picture of policies based, not in security and freedom, but personal gain and enrichment of the elite few.
Again, I give thanks to those of other countries who simply won’t wear bullying of a crooked leadership. Time and again, these revelations come from outside the US and are largely ignored inside. I wager that this the White ‘House of Cards’ is about to fall.