Saturday, March 27, 2004

Coalition 'misanalysed' Iraq mood

Reads the headline on the BBC Website

Sir Jeremy told the BBC's correspondent in Baghdad, Caroline Hawley: "We misanalysed at the beginning, both before and during the conflict."

But here is the quote in it's entireity from the transcript:

Q: Looking back over the past year, what do you believe the coalition's biggest mistakes have been in Iraq?

Everybody's always asking me that and then they just dwell on the mistakes. We misanalysed at the beginning, both before and during the conflict.

The conflict was over very quickly and some of the remnants of the army were left to do a certain amount of damage. But I think that the good decisions have been much more numerous than the bad ones.


Now you see why the BBC used only part of the quote. We are constantly subjected to this nonsense. The average person just does not have the time to find out the whole truth. Shame on the BBC.


Another thing, notice the Transcript webpage is titiled "UK envoy ponders Iraq's future" and the News webpage is titled "Coalition 'misanalysed' Iraq mood". Both are published within 30 mins of each other. The "UK envoy ponders Iraq's future" webpage came first at 1313 gmt and the second page at 1401 gmt. Why two pages? Why create a second page to highlight only the negative? Why? Why?

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