Leaked record of Iraq meeting brands George Bush as 'madman'

[bemildred]

Source: Daily Mail

A leaked secret record of a highly sensitive meeting on Iraq between Tony Blair and George Bush showed the US president as a 'madman', a court heard yesterday.

Civil servant David Keogh is said to have wanted to use the "damning" four-page document against the American Government - leaking it in the run-up to US elections.

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He said: "I know he doesn't like President Bush. That became quite apparent when we talked about this particular paragraph.

"Something along the lines of 'The man's a madman', was said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=450249&in_page_id=1770

[seemslikeadream]

1. 'The man's a madman'

[Dhalgren]

2. I want to see a copy of that document! Damn, this is just a tease...

[bemildred]

4. Gotta sell newspapers, eh? nt

[rasputin1952]

3. Most of us knew this when bush was gov of TX...

after all, chuckling about people about to be put to death in TX is not something most people would consider 'sane'. The guy is a megalomaniac, as well as a sociopath; deeply disturbed, sub-average in intelligence, and in most cases, he would have been shunned by most, except those who actually "think" as he does.

If it were not for the power this man wields, I might feel sorry for him; then again, I might demand he be put away to protect others from his misconceptions.

[rosesaylavee]

7. And what brain cells still function

are killed regularly by his addiction to alcohol and possibly other substances ...

[rasputin1952]

11. I agree, and those two that are left must be awfully lonely...

:D

[Wiley50]

12. "while my Sole Surviving Braincell goes insane"

Make a great country song, Huh?

[alfredo]

18. I've got two working brain cells I've got two working brain cells

I've got two working brain cells and they don't get along.

Repeat

Banjo solo

Repeat

[rosesaylavee]

22. .

:rofl:

[alfredo]

24. I would have written more, but I passed out on the couch.

[truthisfreedom]

5. Who said the line, and to whom?

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. O'Connor was saying to the police what Keogh had said to him

The subject was Bush's comment that he wanted to bomb the Al Jazeera office in Qatar - see http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=357457&rel_no=1 for a discussion of the reporting.

[krkaufman]

17. Right. That's what I took away from the article.

Also, thanks for the extra link.

[burythehatchet]

8. no shit

[VegasWolf]

9. "Doh!" nt

[fshrink]

10. He has a point. nt

[cliss]

13. Wow, thank you for providing the

juicy story.

This is what I call "Fuel for the fire". It ought to ignite a Firestorm, for those who read it.

Now, I'm curious. If this was published thru the Daily Mail, do they have a wide readership? If so, then the English people might decide they've had enough of this nonsense, being coerced to participate in a farcical charade which brings them only dead troops brought home in caskets. This will be all over europe.

And if so, then that might be the final coffin nail in the Bush Administration. One can hope.:smoke:

[bemildred]

15. Not the equivalent of the New York Time, I gather.

I figure it's just "another brick in the wall".

[tinfoilinfor2005]

20. "English people might decide they've had enought of this nonsense"...

I understand they've been saying that for years. Like the americans, we don't really get much of a say as to war decisions, once the (s)election is over.

[krkaufman]

14. "madman" isn't in the report, from my reading of it.

It's just Keogh's opinion of Bush, as expressed to the guy he was turning the documents over to, O'Connor.

[MasonJar]

16. Anyone who saw his response about chickens on KO last week

doesn't need to read anything to know that we are being ruled by a madman.

[goforit]

19. Well folks, when the Bush family hires OBL to commit 911, this is a MADMAN

[orleans]

21. yeah...welcome to our world.... n/t

[bemildred]

23. Variations in Reporting Al Jazeera Trial

Reports about a U.K. trial under the Official Secrets Act have varied in the amount of background explanation and in reference to previous stories suggesting that a leaked memo may record discussion about Al Jazeera. The report by David Stringer for Associated Press is headlined "Al-Jazeera Memo Trial Starts in London," (Dispatch Online). David Keogh, aged 50, and Leo O'Connor, 44, are accused of violating secrecy laws by disclosing a document relating to talks between U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair in Washington on April 16, 2004. Stringer cites the earlier report by The Daily Mirror newspaper that Blair had argued during this meeting against Bush's suggestion of bombing Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

Reports by the BBC and The Times make no mention of Al Jazeera. Their reports do repeat the prosecution case as made in court. There has been evidence so far from Matthew Rycroft, who wrote the original memo. He has explained that it was distributed to David Hill, Blair's director of communications, and to Tom Kelly, his spokesman, not to use the information in their work briefing the press, but so that they had a more complete knowledge of the policies the Prime Minister was putting forward to Bush. It was reported that the meeting lasted about two hours and was also attended, on the British side, by Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the Prime Minister's foreign policy adviser, and Jonathan Powell, his chief of staff. Bush was accompanied by Colin Powell, then U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, then his National Security Adviser, and Dan Freed, special assistant to the president.

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=357457&rel_no=1