Uh Oh! News Analysts Call US View of Iraq Bullshit!

[leftchick]

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=1689688


Expert on Iraq: 'We're In a Civil War'
U.S. Officials Deny Violence Has Risen to That Level, but ABC News Analysts See a 'Serious Lack of Realism'

By JAKE TAPPER

BAGHDAD, March 5, 2006 — - As Pentagon generals offered optimistic assessments that the sectarian violence in Iraq had dissipated this weekend, other military experts told ABC News that Sunni and Shiite groups in Iraq already are engaged in a civil war, and that the Iraqi government and U.S. military had better accept that fact and adapt accordingly.

"We're in a civil war now; it's just that not everybody's joined in," said retired Army Maj. Gen. William L. Nash, a former military commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "The failure to understand that the civil war is already taking place, just not necessarily at the maximum level, means that our counter measures are inadequate and therefore dangerous to our long-term interest.

"It's our failure to understand reality that has caused us to be late throughout this experience of the last three years in Iraq," added Nash, who is an ABC News consultant.

Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told ABC News, "If you talk to U.S. intelligence officers and military people privately, they'd say we've been involved in low level civil war with very slowly increasing intensity since the transfer of power in June 2004."

[Karenina]

1. When "civil war" includes

Negroponte trained and paid death squads, frequent false-flag ops and kegs of kool-aid for every fundiefanatic in reach to wash down the cartons of cabbage, sure...

[Raydawg1234]

2. For the American People, whatever is hapening on TV is reality

If TV says it is not a civil war, it is not a civil war.

Since when has reality mattered?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Civil war? Nah. Just jubilant Iraqis enjoying "liberation".

Complete with fireworks and colorful funeral ceremonies.