Living in the land of delusion

So, where exactly is the footage of this all-out civil war? I mean ... something as dramatic as a full scale civil war, particularly in these times, should provide some pretty dramatic footage, no?

Hmmm ... I've been scanning the sites ... there's nothing ... whazzup with that?

Seems like every news outlet has that armored Baghdad hotel chocked full of reporters, camara and tech guys, right? Can't they just point the camara out the window and show us the bloody streets?

Oops, sorry ... the "civil warriors" must be somewhere else! Maybe they're hiding in the same place as where Bush hid all of the bodies from Katrina ... you know ... the 10's of thousands of poor black people, the hundreds of rapes and murders in the SuperDome, etc.

I think the best story coming out today is this reporter that is actually out in the field with the American soldiers. He's reporting that there is not only no civil war going on, but that the locals are hailing the Americans and George Bush ... thanking them for being there to keep them safe.

I do expect this reporter to fall under some evil curse, however, after he revealed the dirty little secret about news reports coming out of Iraq ... the major news outlets are paying Iraqi locals for the information, and the Iraqi locals have figured out that the worse the story, the more they make ... you do the math.

Given this, a lot about some things in the past make sense ... how Joe Lieberman can come back from ACTUALLY BEING IN THE FIELD and saying things are good, while dirtball leftie media types hiding in the Baghdad hotel bar can claim they "don't know what Iraq he (Lieberman) is talking about" ... after all, their "informants" sold them a much different story than Lieberman actually witnessed! It also explains how the soldiers can be so "upbeat" about their experiences while reporters see nothing but a deadly quagmire.

I am sorry, but when exactly does the misinformation campaign by the news outlets become treason?

On that same note ... when can we stop calling John Murtha a patriot for his war efforts (before he was in politics) and start calling him a spineless, defeatist, lying weasel? Has this guy been right about anything in the last 20 years? Note that Murtha showed his hand a few days ago when he quipped to a leftie Move-On group how he is very concerned that if the troop draw down is a nice, rational, controlled affair (exactly as Bush always planned), he fears that we will think of Iraq as a victory!

GASP ... NOT THAT!!! Imagine how bad it will be for this country if we are actually successful in Iraq!