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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (156906)1/24/2005 8:01:31 PM
From: Nadine Carroll   of 281500
 
Wonderful analysis showing how BBC presenter and big cheese Jeremy Paxman changed his tune on the danger of Saddam and his WMDs. In 2002, he wrote a book charging that Saddam was an unprecedented danger; by 2004, of course, he like the rest of the Beeb, denies that anybody ever thought Saddam was dangerous and "Blair lied!"

The crucial difference is that in a 2002 book (written in 2001), the charge against Saddam could still be used as a charge against the West; once Bush picked it up, it became a pro-American argument, so the Beeb dropped it and forgot they ever supported it.

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