Well, maybe they're not as bad as Peter Jennings, but I just heard the BBC World commentator ask a guest:

Many people say that this was a failure of diplomacy on the part of the Bush Administration. Was this really a failure of diplomacy...

I thought perhaps she'd finish the sentence:

"...on the part of the Bush Administration or the U.N.?"

"...or an inevitability given Iraq's repeated refusal to comply with the international community?"

Nope:

...or did the Bush Administration really mean to go to war all along?

So, are you are murderer or a rapist? When did you stop beating your wife?

Jeez...I've noticed a slant, and read Andrew Sullivan's repeated criticisms of the BBC, but for the most part I still considered them reasonably fair.

As I've blogged here before, is it possible, just slightly possible, that this war is a result of the moral failing of countries like France and Germany in uniting against a despotic psychopath hell-bent on developing weapons of mass destruction against the mandate of the rest of the world?

Nah...

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.