Well, at least he put himself on the record. 3,000 casualties. The man who was Clinton’s drug-war fig leaf will now be held accountable. Let’s pray he’s wrong. But the BBC lapped it up.
CHIRAC AND BLAIR: A superb and judicious over-view of their struggle for power in Europe.
REUTERS AND CORRIE: How some clearly misleading photos from an ideological group came to be presented as “news” by Reuters.
THE LATEST FROM THE BBC: A report on “the fickleness of American public opinion.” Teased with the headline: “Will US public opinion prove to be Saddam’s secret weapons?” The piece tries to suggest that Americans are rallying against the war. No polling data is provided (which would suggest the opposite). One bereaved African-American father of a serviceman is featured. And a visit to the Vietnam Memorial. It’s pieces like these that are responsible for slips of the tongue on the Beeb about the “increasingly peacenik public.” They wish.
The Dish 