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2005-01-24 Fifth Column

What the BBC Knew About Saddam's WMD, and Why They Lied

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-24 3:20:46 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Very interesting and revealing. The Beeb has had its tit in a wringer over the scientist suicide investigation as well (last summer).

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-24 5:01:24 PM|| 2005-01-24 5:01:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Same old question. Would a MSM journalist or reporter seeing an ambush waiting for a US GI patrole warn the GIs?

Posted by SwissTex 2005-01-24 5:26:27 PM|| 2005-01-24 5:26:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Do it to Julia!"

I love the BBC.

Posted by Dishman 2005-01-24 5:37:29 PM|| 2005-01-24 5:37:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Confirmation of everything the CIA and everyone else claimed, and the BBC chooses to lie.

Well, from the available facts at the moment, it's more like, "Paxman and Harris were just as wrong as the CIA and every other Western intelligence service."

I was really struck, reading the excerpts from Paxman's book, at how the emphasis was not on the sinister intentions of Hussein, but on the guilt of the West. Western nations gave him (indeed, the entire world) the idea of CBW. Western companies were at fault for selling him harmless equipment which he turned to weapons use. Western intelligence was culpable for not realizing it sooner. The US is at fault for not signing on to disarmament treaties. Saddam himself comes in for far less criticism in these passages than does the West.

You read this sort of thing from fevered moonbats in blog comment sections, or deduce them from the signs carried by giant puppets in protest marches -- but here it is in one neat package, written by men who have some pretence to credible, sober journalism. It's absolutely jaw-dropping.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-01-24 6:38:54 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-01-24 6:38:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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