Sunday, July 04, 2004

BBC says Saddam 'nostalgic great leader' - Iraqis sense of pride in him

Windbag John Simpson, of the BBC, writes an admiring article of Saddam.

As you read the BBC article, remember Simpson leaves out the number of times Saddam pleaded with the court, saying please, please on a number of occasions.

Towards the end, Simpson reveals why he has no business pretending to be a reporter any longer. And Simpson's presence on the BBC, exemplify why the BBC is a disgrace as a news organization.

Here is what Simpson has to say about Saddam.

But he represents a sense of pride that even people who suffered under him feel.

What arrogance! Speaking for the Iraqi people who suffered horribly under Saddam and saying Saddam represents pride for them?

But Simpson isn't done yet.

There is a complicated sense in which Iraqis are glad to be free of him, but already he has taken on a sort of nostalgic feeling of a great leader.

Only for you Simpson, in that little dried up brain of yours, only for you and your anti-American BBC.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's only your problem that you're so blind as most of
American are. I agree with BBC comments not with full
of stupidity and arogance news from FoxNEWS or CNN.
Greetz from Poland.

Marc said...

Well it seems the BBC itself admit many of their stories are so full of errors as to be "inaccurate and potentially libelous".

The leaked e-mails sent by Hugh Berlyn, an assistant editor of BBC News Online, show that despite the furore surrounding the Gilligan report, dozens of "unvetted" stories appear on the internet every day. The result is a string of stories that are, at best, littered with errors and, at worst, inaccurate and potentially libelous.

Read more here

http://ussneverdock.blogspot.com/2004/07/bbc-admits-its-stories-are-inaccurate.html

Anonymous said...

This doesn't seem inconsistent with the Iraqi interviews that I've seen in pro and anti war media.

Nothing is black and white and it shouldn't be assumed by anyone with a knowledge of Iraq that Saddam was universally loved or loathed. In his early years in power Saddam did, for example, vastly improve Iraqi housing, agriculture and education. Also, much like under Communism, Saddam's security services may have been brutal but they did at least keep a lid on normal crime. There's no great surprise that some perfectly normal Iraqis might be nostalgic given the current uncertaincies.

Until the 'project' is complete lets hold the celebrations and keep an eye on reality.

 
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