The roots of suspicion.

A reader writes:

Unfortunately, I missed the reporter’s name, but this morning on BBC radio Five-Live, Nicky Campbell was discussing the fate of Saddam Hussein, now that he is to be turned over to the new Iraqi government, with a BBC reporter in Iraq. After talking about how whatever is done with him must be very public, the reporter said: “Iraqis won’t believe what they are told. They will only believe what they see, given everything they have been told by the coalition over the last 15 months.”

The BBC would have us believe that Iraqi suspicion of authority and government claims derives not from a lifetime of living under a tyrannical dictatorship, but instead from living for 15 months under the CPA. What a joke.