our fellow countrymen don't see things the same way as the britons i think. knowing (via news sources) that the administration is found to have lied, and knowing that the administration went forward in killing people without justificaiton (the iraq war and the lies that led to it)...i bet the polls would still say that bush is doing alright.

touche

But before that, check out the cnn poll (scroll down and to the right). Right now 51% say Bush is doing a good job. What are these people smoking?

A good chunk of that 39% could just be from the public reading bogus BBC stories that say "Should Blair Resign Over Suicide?" when it's becoming clear that a lot of the blame for Kelly's suicide was BBC induced. They misrepresented who he was, built it up, and stacked a lot of their anti-war tilt on the shoulders of Kelly. Kelly isn't Blair's fault as much as it is the goal-oriented reporters at the BBC. Blair isn't the problem.

It wasn't the BBC who outed Kelly as a source. It wasn't the BBC who had Ministry of Defence policemen march him into a select committee to testify. And it wasn't the BBC who had the power to deny him his pension, or to prosecute him under the Official Secrets Act.

The pressure Kelly was under didn't come from the BBC. It didn't come from backbench MPs, or from the newspapers. It came from his employers.

Iain,

The BBC certainly put pressure on Kelly to be someone he wasn't in order to bolster the BBC's claims. They said he was a senior intelligence official, they denied that he worked for the Ministry of Defense, and they insinuated that he was one of the primary writers of the dossier. The BBC made him into someone he wasn't. As long as he was alive no one would know of course, but now that he's gone and killed himself the truth of the BBC's dishonest reporting has come out. Surely there was pressure from both sides, but the BBC misrepresented who Kelly was. They put the pressure on him.

Since Bush used the same reasons, almost to the word, that Clinton used in 1998, where is the Left's "CLINTON LIED!!!" anger?