Sanjaya wrote:

"Clint" and others wrote about the topic above...
Those in power at the BBC have forbidden any
references to Saddam Hussein as a "dictator"...

Political correctness and anti war bias without a
doubt.....

http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003583553,00.html

Clint
KB5ZHT

Someone please help me understand why the BBC
would do this. It completely eludes me. What possible
reason would they, or anyone, have for sanitzing
references to Saddam, or anyone else?
I don't get it.

My guess is they're afraid of angering certain terrorist groups which
might retaliate against the UK for calling Saddam a dictator. It could
just be a defensive maneuver.


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In message , HFguy writes


Sanjaya wrote:

"Clint" and others wrote about the topic above...
Those in power at the BBC have forbidden any
references to Saddam Hussein as a "dictator"...

Political correctness and anti war bias without a
doubt.....

http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003583553,00.html

Clint
KB5ZHT

Someone please help me understand why the BBC
would do this. It completely eludes me. What possible
reason would they, or anyone, have for sanitzing
references to Saddam, or anyone else?
I don't get it.

My guess is they're afraid of angering certain terrorist groups which
might retaliate against the UK for calling Saddam a dictator. It could
just be a defensive maneuver.

Hardly. He is an ex-dictator now.

Mike
--
M.J.Powell

"HFguy" wrote in message ...


My guess is they're afraid of angering certain terrorist groups which
might retaliate against the UK for calling Saddam a dictator. It could
just be a defensive maneuver.

interesting way of describing cowardice and gutlessness.

Clint


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It's as if the diplomatic train has left the station and
clueless critics of this country are only now beginning
to realize, "Hey, that's my train!"

--Neil Cavuto, describing how america's enemies
are now suddenly congradulating us and expressing
"delight" at the capture of saddam, finally proving
we're doing the right thing and that we're succeeding...

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45 Communist Goals for America

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

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The BBC has a long history of being "PC" all us Brits know that.

- but to describe us brits as cowardly and gutless is beyond comprehension.


interesting way of describing cowardice and gutlessness.

Clint


You mindless morons have us to thank for covering your war mongering
countries ass as almost everyone else in the world hates you, you now start
on the only friend you have? That just shows what a "2 bit" bunch of gun
crazed clowns you are.

If you spent as much time shooting your enemies as you do shooting at out
troops the thing may well have been over by now.

Mind you could we expect anything else from somone with a silent N in his
name?

me

In article , HFguy wrote:

My guess is they're afraid of angering certain terrorist groups which
might retaliate against the UK for calling Saddam a dictator. It could
just be a defensive maneuver.

Islamic militants have never cared for Hussein and are unlikely to seek
revenge. In spite of his heavy-handed, Stalinesque style of rule, he
ran a secular state in which women had more freedom than almost any
other Muslim coutry. They could drive, get an education, be doctors,
etc., and go out in public without a male relative two feet away from
them. They did not have to fear death if a strand of hair escaped the
hijab.

Muslim extremists dislike states like this and want to enforce a
Taliban-style social order.

I don't think the BBC has much to fear from calling Saddam a former
dictator. They may be trying to distance themselves from the Bush
propaganda machine, though.

Dave