Krauthammer: Iraq is in civil war

[Recursion]

...we have been distracted during the past several months by the increasingly absurd debate over the meaning of the term 'civil war', and whether Iraq is in one.

Of course it is.

(Emphasis mine)

It is an otherwise braindead article which gets 100% wrong the strategic significance of Iraq and the victory we have already handed Iran in invading it, and doesn't seem to understand that if we leave it will become a *battleground between* Iran and Al Qaeda, rather than some sort of happy-fun-land base where they both peacefully coexist and plan terrorist attacks on the US and Israel together.

But, one of the chief cheerleaders just admitted it. That's a start.

Edit: Link to the piece, it's an op-ed (free reg. required, blah blah blah)

[hippiechick]

1. Nuh uh!

Our fearless leader and his spokesrobots have said that we're <who's we? by the way??> making progress in Iraq! They all have cute, clean little houses with picket fences. The children go to school and everyone goes to church on Sundays and they all get together for a barbeque in the park afterwards.

They love America.

They want to build their own Dollywood and Colonial Williamsburg parks because they love us so much!

They're going to start GIVING every American oil for our SUV's because they love us so much.

Didn't you get the memo??? We're winning! Really!


:sarcasm:

[rpannier]

3. You left out

every male child is named George and theirs a big plaza in the middle of Baghdad named for scrubbie.

[rpannier]

2. Gee....

And who's fault is this.
I'm surprised he isn't blaming Clinton or the Democrats.

Was this interview done at night? I didn't think krauthammer could leave his cave til nightfall.

[seemslikeadream]

4. but but

"The only people who think this wasn't a victory are Upper Westside
liberals, and a few people here in Washington." (Charles Krauthammer,
Inside Washington, WUSA-TV, 4/19/03)