Al Qaeda blows up a Shia mosque and the MSM dutifully follows up with breathless coverage almost guaranteeing a civil war. Polls show the MSM's sway is still powerful, but the truth appears to be beyond their grasp. Ralph Peters reports from Baghdad that not only did the civil war not materialize, but the Iraqi army stood tall.

AMONG the many positive stories you aren't being told about Iraq, the media ignored another big one last week: In the wake of the terrorist bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, it was the Iraqi army that kept the peace in the streets...

As a result of its nationwide success, the Iraqi army gained tremendously in confidence. Its morale soared. After all the lies and exaggerations splashed in your direction, the truth is that we're seeing a new, competent, patriotic military emerge. The media may cling to its image of earlier failures, but last week was a great Iraqi success...

Let's go deeper and probe into the growth of Iraq's army. On Saturday, The Post conducted an exclusive interview with the commander of Iraq's ground forces. It was Lt.-Gen. Abdul Qadir's first sit-down with the press...

"Not one unit had sectarian difficulties," he stressed. "Not one. And when we canceled all leaves after the mosque bombing - we expected trouble, of course - our soldiers returned promptly to their units. Now it is as you see for yourself: Iraqis are proud of their own soldiers."

Read it all, but suffice it to say the more you learn from journalists who have actually been in Iraq and don't just parrot each other's preferred narrative in an MSM echo chamber, the more you realize that the MSM is downright negligent in the false impression it is actively purveying.

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