According to Britain's Sun newspaper, the BBC has sent an e-mail forbidding its correspondents and writers from referring to Saddam Hussein as a "former dictator."
Rather, the stoic and obviously PC-crazed institution is requiring the use of "the deposed former president" when writing or speaking about the Tyrant from Tikrit.
British parlimentarians are saying that this clearly shows the BBC's left-wing bias and anti-war sentiments.
Labour MP Kevan Jones, of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, told the Sun: "This shows the crass naivety of the BBC. Such political correctness will be deeply hurtful to many of our servicemen serving in Iraq.
"It amply demonstrates elements of the BBC have got a clearly anti-war and anti-Government agenda.”
Labour MP Ann Clwyd - who is the chair of the Indict group, which has collected files upon files on the crimes of Hussein, his sons Uday and Qusay and their various accomplices - said: "It’s frankly ridiculous. Saddam Hussein is a despot, a murderer and a torturer. He will have to answer charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide."
A BBC statement said the e-mail was only to "remind journalists to use neutral language."
Riiiiight.
One BBC insider said it best: "This is our daftest order ever."
Indeed.
In a related story, the former dictator, mass murderer, despot, terrorist, and sadistic souzerain - or to the BBC, current hospital patient - Saddam Hussein has been on an IV drip since his capture, due to dehydration.
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