This story from yahoo.com news this morning describes the situation in Iraq that certainly resembles a civil war. The opening paragraph is the most telling part of the story.
Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died Sunday in a surge of bombings and shootings around Baghdad.
Dictionary.com defines a "civil war" as being "a war between political factions or regions within the same country." Certainly the two main ethnic groups in Iraq urging their cohorts to "take up arms to defend themselves" seems to have all the trappings of a war between political factions in the same country. Unfortunately for about 150,000 American kids in Iraqnam, they have a commander in chief who refuses to accept the reality of his faciliation of a civil war in Iraqnam. To him its all a part of the end plan revolving around securing Iraq's oil resources. The consequences to the American's caught in the cross-fire are secondary to that.
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