An Insurgency By Any Other Name Is A Civil War

Despite the constant good tidings we hear from King George and his administration about the war in Iraq, it finally looks as though the press and electronic media are waking up to the fact that Iraq is in a full blown civil war. Even though this is something you and I and the rest of the reality-based community have been saying for months if not longer, it is good that the MSM is doing their job and making the administration and their lying enablers in Congress face the truth. First we had Michael Ware reporting on CNN last night: Well, firstly, let me say, perhaps it's easier to deny that this is a civil war, when essentially you live in the most heavily fortified place in the country within the Green Zone, which is true of both the prime minister, the national security adviser for Iraq and, of course, the top U.S. military commanders. However, for the people living on the streets, for Iraqis in their homes, if this is not civil war, or a form of it, then they do not want to see what one really looks like. Then yesterday we had Solomon Moore come right out and call it for what it is in his column in the LA Times BAGHDAD — Iraq's civil war worsened Friday as Shiite and Sunni Arabs engaged in retaliatory attacks after coordinated car bombings that killed more than 200 people in a Shiite neighborhood the day before. A main Shiite political faction threatened to quit the government, a move that probably would cause its collapse and plunge the nation deeper into disarray. Yet still this administration says “We’re constantly asked that question, and while the situation is serious, Prime Minister Maliki and President Talabani have said they do not believe it is a civil war”. I swear, that bunch has to be living in a parallel universe or something. On CNN's "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, John Roberts describes in graphic detail just what the situation in Iraq is like. Hopefully, the rest of the MSM will follow suit and tell the truth about Iraq, since they certainly owe the rest of us an apology for doing no more that echo Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld talking points all these years. With the press finally waking up to the lies and hearings by the newly elected Democratic Congress we can finally begin to honestly look for some way to stop the needless deaths, carnage and bloodletting.