According to the British newspaper the Daily Mirror, citing a Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret", President Bush planned to bomb Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera. According to the five-page transcript of a conversation between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Blair talked Bush out of launching a military strike on the station.
The Mirror quoted an unnamed British official as saying Bush's threat was "humorous not serious". What a jokester that Bush is. Another source said, "Bush was deadly serious, as was Blair. That much is absolutely clear from the language used by both men."
The Mirror said such a strike would have been "the most spectacular foreign policy disaster since the Iraq war itself." Blair's former defense minister Peter Kilfoyle challenged Downing Street to publish the transcript, saying "It gives an insight into the mindset of those who were architects of the war."
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