Today the BBC reported that it had uncovered "evidence of serious overcrowding and poor living conditions in one of Iraq's prisons".
Iraq's poor human rights record under Saddam Hussein, you may recall, was one of the propaganda tools used by the British government to justify to the public its aiding and abetting of the US invasion of Iraq.
While it was criminally conspiring with the US to commit aggression against the people of Iraq, the British government used the docile, spineless domestic media, including the BBC, to spread falsehoods about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction capability.
Now this same media have reverted to their traditional sanctimonious role, with the BBC telling us that the present human rights situation in Iraq bears more than a superficial resemblance to that under Saddam Hussein.
Too late! The catastrophe has been inflicted on Iraq, possibly irreversibly. More than a million Iraqis are dead, disease is rife and societal breakdown is at an advanced stage.
Of course, the British people are not listening, preoccupied as they are with the "credit crunch" and worries about whether they can out-do last year's spending on Christmas presents. To them, the outrage against the people of Iraq committed by the suspected war criminal Tony Blair and his Labour Cabinet and Parliamentary co-conspirators is but a distant, almost-forgotten mishap.
Not for the first time, Britain has been pivotal in inflicting mortal damage on an Arab people. Most of the native Britons don't give a damn. And the Arabs? They are wallowing deep in their slumber: when not fighting and undermining one another, they're womanising, drinking, gambling, accumulating material nonsense or simply getting lost in a whirlwind of trivia and esoteric religious obscurantism.
