Reply #29: This had nothing to do with "military operations in Iraq"

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It was about Bush wanting to Bomb Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar:

"Under the front-page headline "Bush plot to bomb his ally", the Daily Mirror reported that the US president last year planned to attack the Arabic television station al-Jazeera, which has its headquarters in Doha, the capital of Qatar, where US and British bombers were based."

The U.S. has previously attacked Al Jazeera journalists and stations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The British government wouldn't be reacting this strongly to a leaked memo if it didn't know the memo was genuine - a transcript of a meeting on April 16, 2004 when Blair talked Bush out of bombing Al Jazeera's HQ in Qatar.

There are better links and articles about this on the 'net right now.