Bush Planned To Bomb Al Jazeera

Yesterday, The Daily Mirror in England reported that President Bush wanted to bomb the Qatar based headquarters of Al Jazeera. According to the report from a British government official there are confidential British memos circulating that described the conversation between Bush and Tony Blair in April 2004, in which Tony Blair had to talk the president out of doing such a thing.

Now, of course the administration is denying that this conversation took place, but like most administration denials at the end of the day there will most likely be mounting evidence that this is in fact a true story. It just fits in so perfectly well with the pattern of dangerous and incompetent decisions that Bush has made thus far. And, if it turns out to be a false story, the fact that it is so believable is still a testament to how much of a reckless loose cannon Bush has become. Would anyone have believed this if it was written about Clinton during the Kosovo war? Not a chance. Even his critics knew Clinton wasn’t this stupid that he would consider it an option to bomb an independent news organization in the middle of a sovereign nation like Qatar just because you don’t like their news stories. With Bush, it seems par for the course.

He really just gives the impression of a spoiled brat who has been given too much power on a silver platter; and it is not power that he earned through his own sweat and tears and natural leadership abilities. No. It is power that was created for him by Karl Rove and a team of behind the scenes contributors and advisors who supported him because he had the right look and the right name to become president, not because they were inspired by his breadth of knowledge of world events and his unique vision for America. Like a spoiled child he has no concept of the gravity of the office he sits in because he didn’t earn his way there. And, deep down Bush himself must know this. That is why he attributes so much of his success to Jesus. In his mind it’s because on a subconscious level he knows he didn’t earn his position, so that only reinforces the belief that it must be God’s will that he is where he is.

That is the scariest aspect of all about Bush. Because when you think that it’s God’s will that you are where you are, then that can let you off the hook for any of these crazy hair-brained ideas that you have, like randomly bombing a news network because you don’t like what they said about you. No sane person would consider such a thing. First of all because it is immoral; but also because it is completely impractical and it would be impossible to get away with, and it would cause what little support there is for America around the world to completely vanish, and it would once and for all cast us in the role of the evil empire to the entire rest of the world save for perhaps 8% of the British population and half of Israel. However, these details don’t disturb the boy king who was chosen by God to rule the world.