Boris Johnson, a British MP who also happens to be the editor of
The Spectator, has said that if someone will pass him the leaked, secret paper that documents Bush's comments regarding Al-Jazeera, he's willing to go to jail and will publish them.
The Attorney General's ban is ridiculous, untenable, and redolent of guilt. I do not like people to break the Official Secrets Act ... we now have allegations of such severity, against the US President and his motives, that we need to clear them up.
If someone passes me the document within the next few days I will be very happy to publish it in The Spectator, and risk a jail sentence. .. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. If we suppress the truth, we forget what we are fighting for.
Amen, brother!
What follows is a
rant about George W. Bush that I never dreamed I'd see outside the pages of Daily Kos.
Some of us were so innocent as to suppose that the Pentagon had a well-thought-out plan for the removal of the dictator and the introduction of peace. Then we had the insurgency, in which tens of thousands have died.
Some of us thought it was about ensuring that chemical weapons could never again be used on Iraqi soil. Then we heard about the white phosphorus deployed by the Pentagon. Some people believed that the American liberation would mean the end of torture in Iraqi jails. Then we had Abu Ghraib.
Some of us thought it was all about the dissemination of the institutions of a civil society - above all a free press, in which journalists could work without fear of being murdered. Then we heard about the Bush plan to blow up al-Jazeera.
I was in awe at this point, then I realized he hadn't even warmed up...
That's why I would love to think that Dubya was just having one of his little frat-house wisecracks, [...]
Maybe he had a burst of spacy Reagan-esque surrealism [...]
We all hope and pray that the American President was engaging in nothing more than neo-con Tourette-style babble about blowing things up [...]
He continues in this vein for several, satisfying paragraphs and then says again:
If someone passes me the document within the next few days I will be very happy to publish it in The Spectator, and risk a jail sentence. The public need to judge for themselves. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. If we suppress the truth, we forget what we are fighting for, and in an important respect we become as sick and as bad as our enemies.
Please, someone give this man the document!