BBC takes openly anti-war stance in coverage of Blair testimony on Iraq

Reasonable people can disagree over the wisdom of the Iraq war. But having watched Tony Blair’s performance at the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday — the fifth (!) attempt by the British establishment to find a smoking gun proving Blair “lied” about WMD and was little more than a “poodle” of George W. Bush, the notorious redneck — I am finally persuaded that on balance it was the right thing to do. The world is a safer place without Saddam Hussein and through six hours of testimony the former prime minister provided a cogent, compelling and reasoned set of arguments as to why that is the case.

He also showed a level of understanding about the dangers of WMD and the specific threat posed today by Iran that was a class above his critics whom he had no problem whatsoever in routing convincingly.

But the arguments about Tony Blair in general and the Iraq war in particular concern me less today than the sheer contempt shown by the BBC for basic standards of fair reporting as it once again confirmed its status as a propagandist standard bearer for liberal-left prejudices.

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