"Had the BBC then had the guts to declare that Dr. Kelly was their source and handed over the interview notes instead of standing on their line of protecting our sources confidentiality (which their own reporter had blown asunder) - It could have easily been established who was altering, or putting spin on what Dr.Kelly had stated. I believe that one result may well have been that Dr.Kelly might have lost his job, but I also believe that the pressures, and media interst on him would have been less and that he might still be alive.

As a result of the forthcoming independent judicial review I do not think that the BBC or Andrew Gilligan are going to come out of it too well."

Bullshit. The BBC has already dealt with the problems caused by Gilligan's Mail article. A serious lapse in one reporter's judgment while under hostile fire from an already beleagured and besieged government demanding the outing of a confidential source, doesn't prove anything. The BBC has taken action to forbid it's journalists from moonlighting for other media outlets which don't have as high standards as the BBC.

The media in Britain isn't "anti-government" at all. It is doing the job the media is supposed to do, by reporting critically about the policies and decisions made by the British government. The media is certainly nowhere near beyond reproach in the way it covers the government, but that doesn't mean that the BBC, or even Gilligan, is guilty of any wrongdoing in the reporting of the story as they saw it.

The real issue underlying the WMD public relations debacle in both the UK and the US, is the government's manipulation of media, and the political uses of spin and hyperbole to sway public opinion. Both governments are damn guilty of engaging in a highly disingenuous war of words to justify using military force to gain control of Iraq's oil, the same way they used 9/11 to justify the use of military force to gain access to the Caspian oil fields in Afghanistan.

We haven't all forgotten that dirty little Afghan war yet, you know. You do remember that valiant war, don't you Teribus? The one that did nothing to bring order to the rogue state harboring Al Qaida, except bring in armed Anglo and American guards to provide access to the oil fields once the 2004 American elections have been bought by Big Oil?