Al Jazeera: Once Attacked By Bush, Now Embraced By Obama

[achahei]

Nothing strange at all. Obama was just showing his predilection for all things Muslim.

[iglor]

@moss1969 Al Jazeera Satellite Channel was launched on 1 November 1996 following the closure of the BBC's Arabic language television station. Many people from the BBC went to Al Jazeera.

[jackbrightside]

@moss1969 you've never even seen al jazeera im sure, go fuck your self ignorant retard, Fullerton California, i may be a liberal but i'll fuck you up, COME AT ME BRO

[PalestineAboveAll]

yes.. ALJAZEERA RULES , im proud all of their key persons and news presenters working there are PALESTINIANS !

[crocfme]

Bush's imbecilic "You're either with us or against us" was, primarily, a warning to journalists not to engage in fair and unbiassed reporting of his "War on terror". The fact that he actually followed thru on this, and murderred independant journalists is yet another one of his crimes.

[carygoleman]

"we don't know where ever journalist is on the battlefield"

then how about you NOT FUCKING BOMB? Does it not dawn on these people that this means "shoot first ask questions later" is literally America's default combat strategy?

According to conventional rules of warfare you identify your enemies BEFORE YOU START KILLING THEM. You don't just grab your spears and burn the fucking forest down.

[jackbrightside]

al jazeera is a really good news channel, i get it from bbc, so the British know its good

[carygoleman]

@jackbrightside

I wouldnt say the bbc is stellar

better than a lot of american news but still pretty slanted sometimes

[TheDailyConversation]

@theRekcabofD I know...the devil's advocate would also say they could just be using Al Jazeera as a means to get their message out. But, I guess it's still better than bombing 'em, right? One step at a time...

[WolverineDeus]

The turning point in the perception of Al Jazeera by many Americans may have been when former USMC Captain Josh Rushing, once the spokesman for the US Central Command on Iraq, quit the Marines and went to work as a commentator for Al Jazeera in 2005.

[TheDailyConversation]

@WolverineDeus Interesting...

[WolverineDeus]

The explanation is really quite simple. The Bush Administration considered anyone whom it could not control as automatically an enemy -- the logical corollary of the "if you are not for me, then you must be against me" reactionary philosophy of the NeoCon theoreticians.