The Daily Mirror broke a story yesterday, picked up by the Sydney Morning Herald today, that Bush wanted to directly attack al-Jazeera’s headquarters but Blair managed to talk him out of it.

The US President, George Bush, planned to bomb the pan-Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera, according to a British newspaper that cited a Downing Street memo marked “Top secret”.

The five-page transcript of a conversation between Mr Bush and the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, published in the Daily Mirror yesterday, reveals that Mr Blair talked Mr Bush out of launching a military strike on the station, unnamed sources told the newspaper.

I suppose it’s not that shocking really, given what we now know about Bush and his cronies, and given that The Mirror has been gagged by the Official Secrets Act, it’s obviously on to something.