BBC front page: No news whatsoever on McClellan revelations?

[go west young man]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Here's the link as of 10:25 am. Not a single piece on what McClellan has revealed. Instead they go with more "wa on terra". The same at The Guardian UK today. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world No mention of it. Not even on either newspapers US/America's page. I used to read the Guardian but these days their coverage of the Bush admin is not near as biting as it used to be.

[Reader Rabbit]

1. They aren't revelations to the BBC.

Most of the foreign press did their jobs in the run-up to the war. That's why the vast majority of non-Americans were against it.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Exactly. Except the majority of Americans were also against it.

December 17, 2002

Poll: Bush hasn't made case for Iraq war

More than two-thirds of Americans believe the Bush administration has failed to make its case that a war against Iraq is justified...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-12-17-iraq-poll_x.htm

January 13, 2003

Poll: Majority of Americans oppose unilateral action against Iraq

A robust majority of Americans - 83 percent - would support going to war if the United Nations backed the action and it was carried out by a multinational coalition. But without U.N. approval and allies, only about a third of the public would support a war with Iraq.
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/001415.html

US Public Want to Give UN Inspectors More Time

Seven in 10 Americans would give U.N. weapons inspectors months more to pursue their arms search in Iraq, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that found growing doubts about an attack on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Fifty-eight percent said they would like to see more evidence, and 71 percent said the United States should make public its own evidence if the U.N. inspectors can't find hard evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

In one clear sign of public caution on Iraq, 43 percent of respondents said the U.N. inspectors should have as much time as they like to scour Iraq. A quarter said the inspectors should have "a few months" or more. Another quarter supported a deadline of a few weeks or less for the inspections.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A23564-2003Jan21





Funny how the US "media" doesn't ever bother pointing this wee fact out...

[go west young man]

3. It's just that they dedicated plenty of space to Obama's pastor.

i figured this may be a bit more newsworthy. I'm from England myself and I know the foreign press was a lot more aggressive in regards to Bush than the US press was. But I do see a change in the last few years. Especially at The Guardian. They use AP for all their American stories these days and the AP has been crap for years. The Guardian used to have much more of an edge. As far as the BBC goes all they ever do is go on and on about Israel and Palestine.

[Mike Daniels]

4. I don't know what US paper you're looking at but....

McClellan is above the fold on page 1 of the front page on the Washington Post.