Posted on 11/20/2007 1:46:19 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
As the first anniversary of its grand declaration fast approaches, does NBC continue to believe that Iraq is in a state of civil war? Readers will recall that as we described here, Matt Lauer opened the Today show on November 27th, 2006 with these words:
Good morning. Civil war. A bloody weekend of sectarian clashes in Iraq and no sign it's letting up.
A bit later, Lauer portentously declared:
For months the White House rejected claims that the situation in Iraq has deteriorated into civil war. For the most part news organizations like NBC hesitated to characterize it as such. After careful consideration, NBC News has decided the change in terminology is warranted and what is going on in Iraq can now be characterized as civil war.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
An anniversary to forget? Ping to Today show list.
Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia.... Stay tuned with glorious news from the Malabar Front.... The chocolate ration has been increased to 25 grammes a week...
After careful consideration, I have decided that NBC is biased.
Whenever I hear a former General like Gen. Barry McCaffrey speak , I think about how long victory in Iraq would have taken had Ol’ Blood and Guts Patton been the theater commander.
Answer, it would have been over a long time ago, and we would be out of there, by now.
Anyway, when they stand up we stand down. Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are there yet? It ain’t over, till it’s over.
Frightening high school flashback.
It never was in civil war you NBC twits
civil war (whatever that means) is only on hold until we leave......and of course it will be our fault, rather than the muslim/arab way of life.........same gig in afghanistan.......bushie is the same as poppa......nation-builder wannabe
Bias you can fix . . . stupid? Well, that’s a different story.
Patton didn’t have a Treasonous Press degrading his every move.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
Humility from Matt Lauer? Not likely.
LOL!!!
I guess Lauer and NBC will have to deal with this:
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The only civil war is the propagandists assault on our rational faculties. They’re fortunate we’re civil.
NEW MEDIA BUMP! TRUTH BUMP!
A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight against each other for the control of political power.
In Iraq, an example might be Iraqi Sunnis fighting Iraqi Shiites for control of the country.
well I’m glad you small “n”d the word “nationality”, LOL......palestinian should always spelled like that, too. “iraq” is a made-up country, therefore so is the nationality......the cultures/societies and various elements of them all within “iraqs” arbitrary borders that you did and didn’t mention simply are not and will not be conducive to political unity. JMO and expectations......if you take it to mean that preventing a “civil” war is now our mission, we’ll never be able to leave.
Is it still a civil war ping?
The civil war was a figment of the media's imagination.
Like the idiot Cronkite back when, stupid things have a habit of being perpetrated among the masses of ill informed. I’ll leave it go at that.
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