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    Wednesday, March 22, 2006

    Civil War in Iraq

    I was a little hazzy on the definition.

    From Google: "define: civil war"

    A war between factions of the same country; there are five criteria for international recognition of this status: the contestants must control territory, have a functioning government, enjoy some foreign recognition, have identifiable regular armed forces, and engage in major military operations.

    A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire. Civil war is usually a high intensity stage in an unresolved political struggle for national control of state power. As in any war, the conflict may be over other matters such as religion, ethnicity, or distribution of wealth. Some civil wars are also categorized as revolutions when major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of the conflict.

    How is this not Iraq? No really, please tell me. Of course the "functioning Government" was the one we helped put in place, but I feel really naive about the truth of this.

    I may be going out on a limb when I agree with those who feel that Iraq has been in this state for as long as two years.

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