Journalists have a 'civil war in Iraq' orgy over the weekend - 21-Mar-06 - Generational Dynamics

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Journalists have a 'civil war in Iraq' orgy over the weekend

It's hard to remember when news shows had so much sheer non-stop nonsense as I heard all weekend.

The trigger was a statement by an Iraqi politician:

"It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more - if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is" - Iyad Allawi, former interim Iraqi Prime Minister

The news shows couldn't talk about anything else all weekend, and the only question worth debating was whether a civil war was already in progress or whether it was just about to come.

There were other Iraqi politicians who said there was no civil war, and there were Army generals who said there was no civil war, but the journalists I saw all made it clear that those views were to be disregard, presumably because they have some "agenda." Oh no. The only one who's telling the truth is a 2nd rate Iraqi politician who's running for office.

But it's much, much worse than that.

There were two other important stories in the news last week:

The civil war in Darfur, Sudan, has already resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of forced relocations, thanks to the Janjaweed militia going from village to village, killing the men and children, raping the women, and burning the buildings to the ground.

Slobodan Milosevic's death and funeral last week reminds the world that in the Balkans, men were mass murdered and buried in mass graves and women were mass raped, so that they'd get pregnant with the sperm of their conquerors. The "ethnic cleansing" campaign went on for years.

Now, 50-60 deaths in the entire country of Iraq is not good, but there are some large cities that have experienced that many murders in a single weekend. What's happening in Iraq isn't a civil war in any way whatsoever. When Allawi says, "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is," I'm going to suggest Darfur and the Balkans.

I listened to a lot of CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Sunday. This guy's supposed to be a seasoned senior journalist, to be held to a high standard. Is he really so stupid or incompetent that he can't make the obvious connection between the Iraq 'civil war' story and the real civil wars in Darfur and the Balkans?

And I don't mean to pick on just Blitzer. They all did it -- FOX, MSNBC, BBC, and network newscasts.

Once again what we're seeing are the fantasies of the journalists who are so incredibly anti-American that they'll fall for anything that makes America look bad, no matter how unprofessional it makes them.

As I've explained many times in the last three years, Generational Dynamics says that a civil war in Iraq is impossible because only one generation has passed since the genocidal Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s, and it's impossible for a new genocidal crisis war to begin less than two generations after the end of the previous one. (21-Mar-06) Permanent Link
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