A freshly painted school in Fallujah.
So...it's a raging clusterfuck, with obscene levels of violence, anarchy, and suffering...but it's NOT a civil war, at least according to the learned, august, um, paper pushers at the Pentagon:
Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said Friday.
Increasing violence is affecting "all other measures of stability, reconstruction and transition," according to the report, which examined the situation in June, July and August.
But the report concluded the "current violence is not a civil war, and movement toward civil war can be prevented."
Gee, I dunno--maybe some smart ass came to the conclusion that NO war is particularly civil and decided to run with it...
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