If, as Lileks notes, the BBC seems to broadcast with a continual sneer, Bob “Eeyore” Fisk manages to write with one. One can imagine that he fills his inkwell with darkened lemon juice.

His very first sentence puts scare quotes around the word “liberated.” Yes, just like that.

He’s not totally upset that Saddam is no longer in power, but all the credit goes to the Iraqi people, and the prospects for the peace are, of course, dismal.