"Tourette-style Babble"

Found via a link on a sidebar at One Woman Wrecking Crew, who has punctuated her sabbatical with a couple of worthy posts, is a quote from a British MP, Boris Johnson:

We all hope and pray that the American President was engaging in nothing more than neo-con Tourette-style babble about blowing things up. We are quite prepared to believe that the Daily Mirror is wrong. We are ready to accept that the two British civil servants who have leaked the account are either malicious or mistaken. But if there is one thing that would seem to confirm the essential accuracy of the story, it is that the Attorney General has announced that he will prosecute anyone printing the exact facts. [...]

He says that he will publish the Downing Street memo about bombing al Jazeera if he can get it, even if it means going to jail.

Personally, I dislike the practice of adding to the stigma of those with Tourette syndrome by comparing Bush to those with the syndrome, but he does make a valid point with the comparison.

It turns out that Mr. Johnson is not the only MP upset by the memo:

Peter Kilfoyle, a former defence minister, today said that the details of the conversation which supposedly took place during the Prime Minister's visit to the White House in April 2004 should be put before the public.

"I would hope we can have a fair and full discussion of the very important issues that were discussed at that meeting," the Liverpool Walton MP told the BBC.

Mr. Kilfoyle has put forth a motion in Parliament calling upon Blair to publish the memo.

The original news article in The Mirror, the one that started all this fuss, is here. posted by : Joseph j7uy5 | link | | |
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