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Journalism of Courage
If some of Dubya8217;s neocons sometimes felt that Tony wasn8217;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. Hadn8217;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 isn8217;t the man the White House thought he was when he8212;as we had read with deep admiration8212;prayed together with the president. If he were a true buddy, Tony should have pointed out that all 8220;Als8221; are dangerous8212;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 syllables8212;a typical liberal bad habit8212;they will say that the coincidence of the prefix 8220;Al8221; signifies nothing. They will also insist that 8220;Al8221; is a common linguistic device in Arab countries as well as a common diminutive form of 8220;Albert8221; in the West. Some of these people had also said Saddam didn8217;t have nukes or bio-bombs. Look where that got them8212;they couldn8217;t even elect their own president.
