Don't believe the Iraq stories that say, "ON THE BRINK," "ON THE VERGE OF," or "LOW-LEVEL..." IT'S CIVIL WAR, period!

IT'S "CIVIL WAR," damnit... And we have no business there. Never really did...

In the 29-day period following the mosque attack, 955 people were murdered in Baghdad province, which includes the capital city and its outskirts, according to the U.S. military.

That's more than the number of murders in New York City, San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta, Boston and Seattle combined for all of 2004, according to the FBI. Those cities have a combined population of 10.8 million, compared with Baghdad province's 7 million.
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Insurgents have turned their "focus in the last three months to the softest target (they) can find," said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, the chief U.S. military spokesman. "And that's the innocent men, women and children of Iraq."
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Almost every day bodies of civilians, many shot execution-style and dumped by the side of the road, are turning up.

It's often difficult to tell who is doing the killing. On Thursday, six Iraqis were found dead in a car in Baghdad, according to the U.S. military. All were blindfolded with their hands bound. On Friday, U.S. and Iraqi forces found the bodies of 13 executed Iraqis in western Baghdad, according to a U.S. military statement. The bodies were spread along a road.

Especially if it's YOUR sons, nephews, brothers, father, or grandfather who disappear, and end up executed with their hands bound, or decapitated, and dumped on some Bagdad street like trash -- to make a statement -- because your family lived in a Sunni neighborhood and you're Shyite; or vice versa. Sometimes brutal-dictators actually "keep the peace," in the 'hoods...
65,000 Families have had to flee their neighborhood for this not quite on-the-verge civil war...

At least 65,000 Iraqis have fled their homes as a result of sectarian violence and intimidation, according to new figures from the Iraqi government.

"Low-level" nothing! Not on the ground in Iraq! "On the friggin' verge?" Of what... complete-annihilation?

Damn politicians... GULLIBLE MEDIA STENOGRAPHERS! Stupid neocons... (and this administration's constant BS about EVERYTHING). Sheesh, Herb.