March 5, 2006 -- BAGHDAD

"I'M trying. I've been trying all week. The other day, I drove another 30 miles or so on the streets and alleys of Baghdad. I'm looking for the civil war that The New York Times declared. And I just can't find it. "
http://www.nypost.com//postopinion/opedcolumnists/64677.htm

[linked by instapundit]

More:
"Rolling with the "instant Infantry" gunners of the 1st Platoon of Bravo Battery, 4-320 Field Artillery, I saw children and teenagers in a Shia slum jumping up and down and cheering our troops as they drove by. Cheering our troops.

All day - and it was a long day - we drove through Shia and Sunni neighborhoods. Everywhere, the reception was warm. No violence. None.

And no hostility toward our troops. Iraqis went out of their way to tell us we were welcome.

Instead of a civil war, something very different happened because of the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. The fanatic attempt to stir up Sunni-vs.-Shia strife, and the subsequent spate of violent attacks, caused popular support for the U.S. presence to spike upward. "

That evil sneaky Bush.
And don't forget Carl Rove is behind it all. Or was that Cheney. Anyways, it's not important; somehow they are warping the minds of all these Iraqis. We need some investigation of this, proto.