"Mike" wrote in message
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Be polite to Mr Saddam
By NIC CECIL
Political Correspondent

BARMY BBC bosses have banned reporters from calling tyrant Saddam
Hussein a former dictator.

Instead, staff must refer to the barbaric mass murderer as "the
deposed former President".

It's idiocy like this that eases any concern over loss of the BBC
broadcasts to North America. While I still enjoy some of their
feature programs, the news organization has deteriorated to such a
degree that it's hardly worth trying to find the broadcasts. They
almost make NPR look "fair and balanced."......Well, not really.