Optimism shocker

One of the headlines on the BBC website today is the earth-shattering “Poll suggests Iraqis ‘optimistic’”.

It then goes on to give a countless number of percentages on how things have changed throughout the country. “What counts is how the individual groupings, Sunni, Shia and Kurdish, feel – and especially the Sunnis, since much of the violence is from that quarter,”.
First off, what has Sunni and Shia got to do with it – they just made bad records, which as it happens made me want to go out and kill someone. And Secondly if there were 3 groups how can much of the violence come from one quarter. Is my licence fee really going towards such inaccurate journalism and poll-taking?

It then goes on to tell us that “In spite of all the improvements, the Sunni population of Iraq clearly remains deeply alienated, and deeply hostile,” - no shit Sherlock – thanks for the update. This accurate piece of journalism is then followed up by “Some 62% of those polled say security in their own area is good – up from 43% last year – but exactly half of all Iraqis still rate security as the biggest problem for the country overall.” - did I read that right -”exactly half” – “exactly” – that’s not a word you should just throw into such an important piece unless you can back it up. What I also fail to understand is how “those polled” could have risen at all since last year – I’m pretty sure a hell of a lot of “those polled” are now pushing up some Iraqi daisies given the cull that has been going on over the past 12 months.

BBC3 is starting to look like a good use of our licence fee when compared to this drivel.

Andy

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