WTF Is It Now?!?

'Civil war' doesn't even begin to describe the chaos in Iraq
Bloody insurgency; increasing sectarian violence; satanic, escalating carnage amongst factions; raging clusterfuck, yeah... just don't call it a civil war.

The reason the White House doesn't want to call the fighting in Iraq a "civil war" is no mystery. Civil war represents the total abject failure of the Bush misadministration's effort to implant a stable, pro-US democracy in Baghdad.

The sad reality is that "civil war" is too simple a term to describe what's happening inside Iraq, where the US-led invasion in 2003 had the same effect as smacking a beehive with a baseball bat.

Bush appears to have no clue of how to arrest the steady downward spiral. His assertion Tuesday that he'd leave troops in Iraq until "the mission is complete" and victory is achieved rings hollow. While our troops continue to die, Decider McFuckwit seems to be stuck repeating tired formulations, at a loss for new ideas. Fucking dumbass.

From an editorial in the USA Toady (more or less).

- m