I know we're not supposed to post from blogs, but this is analysis a book on Saddam Hussein's WMDs written by the BBC's version of Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite (Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman). Long excerpts from the book, interesting discussion thereof. Hat tip Instapundit.
Opening statement: While I was trying to find out whether BBC reporter and presenter Jeremy Paxman had explicitly endorsed the idea that HIV is a manufactured virus (see previous post) -- apparently he did not -- I came across a new 2002 edition of his book, A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Chemical & Biological Warfare, with a newly written final chapter; and the final chapter said something which, in the context of the way the BBC has covered the Iraq war, is almost as startling.
Most of that final chapter is a strong argument trying to convince the reader that Saddam Hussein kept his arsenal of chemical and biological weapons after the first Gulf War, and that, at the time of the writing and publication of the new edition in 2001 and 2002, Saddam had an active program of producing chemical and biological weapons. Indeed, the new chapter is one of the most powerfully persuasive pieces of writing in favor of the idea of taking action against Saddam Hussein that I've ever seen. If I didn't know better, I might have guessed that Tony Blair or Christopher Hitchens had written it. snip
They're on the other side. Confirmation of everything the CIA and everyone else claimed, and the BBC chooses to lie. |