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Yes, the front page of Friday's Tribune is all about Iraq. They used a picture of an Iraqi soldier standing guard after a car bombing in February when sixty people were murdered. The bombing took place in Baghdad. The headline reads, "Defining a conflict (very small print) On the Ground, it's Civil War (very big bold print).

The author is an Iraqi by the name Aamer Madhani who started with the Trib in 2001. He's been to Iraq eight times since March 2003 totaling a year. Other headlines in today's cat litter liner, "Gunmen ambush convoy, killing 17" and "In Iraq army, going AWOL is going with policy grain". Sunday, we Chicagoans will have the pleasure of reading, "How the U.S. role in Iraq war raises troubling legal questions."

Here are some quotes, "Many U.S. and Iraqi officials insist that the violence engulfing the country does not constitute a civil war. But by any reasonable standard, "the conflict in Iraq is a civil war," said James Fearon, a Stanford University political scientist who specializes in the study of civil conflict. "The rate [of killings] is comparable to Sri Lanka, the Lebanese war and Bosnia," all of which were widely regarded as civil wars.

"Larry Diamond a former adviser to the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, said the question is only one of semantics. "You can use whatever language you want to describe it, but the violence is increasing and it is becoming more vengeful and polarized," Diamond said.

"Thousands of Iraqi families-about 60,000 people-have fled their homes in the face of intimidation campaigns by Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias, most of them since the al-Askari bombing, according to the nation's Ministry of Displacement and Migration.

Reading this one would think you live in a bomb shelter 24/7. Honestly. What is so insulting, they are using a picture of a car bombing from FEBRUARY. Today's date is April 14th. Now that is one heck of an active Civil War. Didn't the Shiite just have a religious celebration where a million Shiites walked from as far south as Basra to Najaf or somewhere around there with only 12 poor souls losing their life due to fatigue, heat, etc.? If that is the case that means water and food stations were available. That means there were very few TERRORIST attacks. That means it was comparably quiet. Gosh, the MSM really sucks big time and they are too stupid to realize it. The good news, the Trib and NYT revenues are down well over 20%. May that trend continue until bankruptcy.

Rant over. Hope you are having a nice day. And if we don't talk, do have a Happy Easter.

Rant over. Hope you are having a nice day. And if we don't talk, do have a Happy Easter.

You too!

Sounds like you've cracked the MSM "code." We were just cracking up a little while ago at some article on CNN's website that was going on about how dangerous it is in Baghdad. It's all in flames, complete chaos, mortars and rockets just flying through the air, car bombs exploding on every street, etc., etc. etc.

The truth is that there are only a few bad areas of Baghdad, Sadr City being the worst. But to read this article, you'd think it was some scene out of freakin' "Independence Day." LOL

But by any reasonable standard, "the conflict in Iraq is a civil war," said James Fearon, a Stanford University political scientist who specializes in the study of civil conflict.

Lacking the time to read and analyze his body of work, I'll speculate that Fearon, like 90+% of all poli-sci professors, is a hate America lefty lunatic spounting RAT talking points.