So, is there a civil war in Iraq? Let's ask the Generals. -Larry C Johnson

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General Confusion?
by
Larry C Johnson

So, is there a civil war in Iraq? Let's ask the Generals.


Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Perfect" Peter Pace (a moniker bestowed on him by his superiors in the Marine Corps) says things are swell. When asked by Tim Russert how Iraq was doing Pace responded:

I’d say they’re going well. I wouldn’t put a great big smiley face on it, but I would say they’re going very, very well from everything you look at, whether it be on the political side where they’ve had three elections, they’ve written their own constitution, they’re forming their government. You look at the military side where this time last year there were just a handful of battalions in the field, Iraqi battalions in the field. Now there are over 100 battalions in the field. They had no brigades—that’s about 3,000 men each. Now they’ve got about 31 brigades. No matter where you look at their military, their police, their society, things are much better this year than they were last.

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/03/what_do_the_gen.html#more
OK. Good start. Let's ask Iraqi General, Maj. Gen. Mubdar Hatim Hazya al-Dulaimi, the top commander of the Iraqi army division in Baghdad, what he thinks. General, wazz up?

Whoops! Sorry folks, the General is unavailable.

It seems the good General was killed in an ambush Monday when his car came under small-arms fire while traveling through Baghdad. Well, I am sure that if General Dulaimi was still alive he'd agree with Perfect Peter that things are, well, perfect.