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Sunday, March 5, 2006 12:08 p.m. EST Ralph Peters: Iraq 'Civil War' a Media Myth Reports that Iraq has descended into a civil war are not only not true - they're being promulgated by anti-war journalists eager to see U.S. efforts to establish a stable democracy in the country fail. So says military analyst Ralph Peters, who just spent a week touring Baghdad with the 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. "I'm looking for the civil war that The New York Times declared. And I just can't find it," Peters declared in his New York Post column on Sunday. Instead, he reports, "I saw children and teenagers in a Shia slum jumping up and down and cheering our troops as they drove by." "Cheering our troops," he repeated. Everywhere the 506th traveled, he said, the reception was warm. "No violence. None. Iraqis went out of their way to tell us we were welcome." Instead, said Peters, the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra - the alleged catalyst for the so-called civil war - has "caused popular support for the U.S. presence to spike upward." "In place of the civil war that elements in our media declared, I saw full streets, open shops, traffic jams, donkey carts, Muslim holiday flags - and children everywhere, waving as our Humvees passed," he recalled. "Even the clouds of dust we stirred up didn't deter them. And the presence of children in the streets is the best possible indicator of a low threat level." So, why is the U.S. press full of reports that Iraq is spinning into chaos? Says Peters: Many journalists who pretend to be out on the streets of Baghdad getting the story are instead hiding out in their hotel rooms and getting their news from Iraqi stringers. "And the Iraqi stringers have cracked the code," he explained. "The Americans don't pay for good news. So they exaggerate the bad." newsmax.com