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Letter: Vietnam repeats itself in Iraq
Independent, The (London), Mar 21, 2006 by MARK PEMBERTON
Sir: Your main news stories on Iraq (20 March) have left me confused. Robert Fisk claims there is no civil war in Iraq, but that talk of a civil war is all a plot by the occupying powers to frighten Iraqis. Patrick Cockburn says the civil war has already begun. Rupert Cornwell reports Dick Cheney's denial of a civil war and Andrew Grice reports Iyad Allawi saying that there is a civil war and that this is "the Blair Iraq nightmare".
And your leading article says that a state of civil war "has been obvious to all but the most blinkered of international observers for some weeks now".
Which suggests all you actually have to report is opinion, not fact. If you cannot decide what is going on, what hope have we?
MARK PEMBERTON
LONDON NW1
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