Civil War?

Ralph Peter, conservative neo-con bad military analyst and bad novelist, rides around Baghdad heavily protected and like goes "Dude, where's my civil war?"  Hey, Dude, get a clue! Experienced actual journalists write about the ominous silence that descended over Baghdad because of the daytime curfew.  Another actual journalist just comes out and says that Ralph Peter is full of BS.  

In the past several weeks hundreds of people have been killed.  Bombs go off in the capital daily. Oil can only be delivered in massive armed convoys.  The secret police are rounding up and murdering or disappearing minority group members.  If this was happening in the United States would you say there was a civil war?

Christopher Allbritton also wonders "Why is it I, a professional journalist, get tarred with a "liberal" brush when I have never, ever written for Mother Jones, The Nation or Granta, etc. But polemicists who spend the all their energies cranking out pieces for the National Review, Front Page and the New York Post somehow don't get called "conservatives" but instead are "truth tellers"?

Is the American Civil War starting among journalists?

Tags: Iraq, journalism, Peters, Allbritton