Ralph Peters: Iraq 'Civil War' A Media Myth

NewsMax ^ | March 5, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

[Kaslin]

The clueless left fell for the MSM lie hook line and sinker, just as the fell for the AP article about the president having lied in the Katrina tapes

[MNJohnnie]

Somebody should send this to George Wills. He has been the "Conservative" giving the Left political credibility by repeating their "Civil War"" lies.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

the facts be damned, the MSM will print what they want to print and declare, as they already have, Iraq a 1) disaster 2) lost cause 3) civil war 4) (insert term here)...

They don't care that the Iraqi people want us there, they don't care that the country is relatively thriving and they don't care that things are going well..they want a civil war dammit, and they mean to have one..

[JennysCool]

Not to mention the folks who went nuts over the UAE deal, falling into line behind Chuck Schumer of all people! The rule should be: Whatever Chuck says, run the other way!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Washington DC has a higher per-capita murder rate than Baghdad.

[Kaslin]

The irony is that the left falls hook line and sinker for the lies the MSM spreads, and they think the president is stupid

[stm]

I posted this on the other duplicate article:

The very assertion that Iraq is in a civil war is wrong. For it to be a true civil war, it had to only be Iraqi vs Iraqi. As anyone that has been over there knows, there are a lot of Syrians, Iranians, Palestinians, Jordanians and Saudi's behind a good deal of the unrest. And the two biggest instigators, OBL and Zarqaqi, are from SA and Jordan respectively. Therefore the assertion falls apart right from the start.

[Kaslin]

Your quotation marks says it all, re George Wills

[DarthVader]

What is really happening is that Al Quada, Iranian an Srian forces are creating violence trying to start a civil war.

[Quanah Parker]

" The clueless left fell for the MSM lie hook line and sinker, just as the fell for the AP article about the president having lied in the Katrina tapes"

The "clueless left" isn't the problem as they strictly vote against Republicans.

It's the clueless SHeeple plopped in front of Reality TV that is their target.

[Dr. Frank fan]

For it to be a true civil war, it had to only be Iraqi vs Iraqi. As anyone that has been over there knows, there are a lot of Syrians, Iranians, Palestinians, Jordanians and Saudi's behind a good deal of the unrest. And the two biggest instigators, OBL and Zarqaqi, are from SA and Jordan respectively. Therefore the assertion falls apart right from the start.

Dang! Good point. A point that cannot be stressed enough. A point I've failed to keep in mind myself.

There are native insurgents to be sure, but Iraq is also under assault from external terror infiltrators. Virtually nobody confronts and digests that fact for what it means.

[Kaslin]

Yeah, but the clueless left ignores the fact that the terrorists who commit the outrageous acts are foreigners

[mylife]

According to the MSM the shiates just have to hit the fan sunni than later

[RKV]

I would very much appreciate it if you could find a reference to back that statement up (i.e. more murders in DC than in Baghdad). BTW DC had 262 murders in 2002 [in a city of about 600,000] (http://www.safestreetsdc.com/subpages/murdercap.html). Given the latest bombings, I doubt that is true anymore. You have a point, but I think the facts are not on our side lately.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If you listed half of the media myths out there, it would fill a volume the size of the Sears Roebuck catalog.

[Kaslin]

BTW here is the Ralph Peters aricle as posted by freeperfromnj

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590290/posts

[SandRat]

Here's why it's a myth. Scouting is back in Iraq Teaching Values

[mirkwood]

[Kaslin]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590290/posts

[Patriot from Philly]

It's even worse than the Americans pay for bad news. In many cases, the Iraqi "stringers' are former Saddam loyalists so they are very happy to provide the "insurgent" viewpoint and, of course, our Tokyo Rose media is only too happy to buy it and peddle this to the folks back home.