BBC spinning headline - approval for war in Iraq

[flamesong]

The BBC headline states that:

Third 'think Iraq war was right'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6467147.stm

But then goes on to say:

A third of people in the UK think the war in Iraq was justified but six in 10 believe it was a mistake, a BBC survey suggests.

The 'but' in the follow up is there to counter the first part of the sentence - i.e. the 'positive' that there is support from a third of the population. Very subtle but the headline is nonetheless spinning the approval above the disapproval.

[alfsevic]

It seems as though bbc is going from bad to worse, It should have been over 70% thought it was wrong, or the majority of the British thought it was false.

[SHERITON HOTEL]

Two million people marched through London on a very cold day Feb2003 in protest against the imminent Iraq illegal invaion after Bliar's tanks round Heathrow stunt, the biggest pro war demo to my knowkedge was 200 persons in some military town and I think the plod moved the decimal point to the right this time in estimating crowd size. We then saw published in the Guardian a poll saying the country was split 50/50 on whether to ignore international law and another country's sovereignty and invade!?! Now after 4 years of carnage they are saying only 2 in 5 have left the pro war position?

[Thermate]

heheh yes I spotted that too, the glass half full vs half empty approach... hmm

kinda sad to see the BBC stoop so low isn't it, I wonder when exactly the takeover occurred, somewhere around Greg Dyke's departure I'm guessing?

[blackcat]

It was surely when Birt was appointed.

[johndoe]

i was against the war before it started however now we are there i don't believe we should leave.

i think one of the biggest lies the media tries to spin is that iraq will get better once we are gone. i can see it right now

shia guy: "i see the foreign troops have left"
sunni guy: "oh really? then i guess we can stop blowing each other up then."
shia guy: "wanna come round to my house for tea?"

aye that'll be right.

[flamesong]

[johndoe]

"I've heard the Labour/Conservative Party memberships are in serious decline - I'm sure they could use people like you. "

and the IDF had plenty of people like you at sabra and shatila.

[flamesong]

[Thermate]

that story was on the front page of bbc website earlier, now you cant find a link to it anywhere ...

[paul wright]