If some of Dubya’s neocons sometimes felt that Tony wasn’t hundred per cent blood and guts about this Ay-rab thing that God had asked them to take care of, we know now those folks were absolutely right. Hadn’t Dubya said that all of us are either with his righteous army or against it? Al Jazeera was definitely against it; they never showed those visuals of smiling, waving, rose petal showering Iraqis that we were told about.So, if George Bush reckoned a bomb or two may make the TV channel see sense, he was being consistent. And if Tony Blair talked him out of it, he isn’t the man the White House thought he was when he—as we had read with deep admiration—prayed together with the president. If he were a true buddy, Tony should have pointed out that all “Als” are dangerous—Al Qaeda, Al Jazeera, Al Gore, to name only three. Of course, lily-livered liberals will carp at this. Using words of more than two syllables—a typical liberal bad habit—they will say that the coincidence of the prefix “Al” signifies nothing. They will also insist that “Al” is a common linguistic device in Arab countries as well as a common diminutive form of “Albert” in the West. Some of these people had also said Saddam didn’t have nukes or bio-bombs. Look where that got them—they couldn’t even elect their own president.Still, what’s done is done and, after the press leak, Al Jazeera has to be taken out of the list of targets. But there are so many more! Plenty of US media outlets are changing their stories on Iraq. Lots of non-US newspapers and TV stations had always been against helping Iraq and Halliburton. That is true for many newspapers and TV stations in the country Dubya is visiting soon. That country, whose people are called Indians but who are, so Condi Rice says, different from the Indians Dubya grew up reading about.
