Turns out Westphal isn't the only McClatchy editor who made that claim. John Walcott is McClatchy's Washington Bureau Chief. Last November, Walcott told a reporter McClatchy was already calling the conflict in Iraq a Civil War. Walcott's quote:
"We began using it when that was clear that was going on, which was a number of months ago," said John Walcott , Washington bureau chief for the McClatchy chain. "When the Shi'a population is at war with the Sunni population and members of the Interior Ministry kidnap people from the Education Ministry, that sounds like a civil war."
Things have changed in Iraq. If members of the Iraqi government have been kidnapping each other as Walcott says, McClatchy hasn't been doing those stories.
So when will McClatchy come clean and admit Iraq is not in a civil war?
