It's a Civil War, Stupid

Finally NBC and its cable cohort, MSNBC, are calling a spade a spade. That nebulous violence that has gripped Iraq since shortly after the US invasion is now, in the NBC lexicon, a civil war.

The White House and its thinning ranks of apologist can go on calling it whatever they want in that Bizarro-world alternate universe they live in. The rest of the world knows -- and has known for a long time -- that it is, by any rational definition of the term, a civil war.

But that's the same knuckledragging mentality that continues to insist that the American Civil War was not a civil war, either: they insist on calling it "The War Between the States" (when the diehards in the south aren't calling it privately the War of Yankee Aggression).

I guess they just can't help it. Stupidity is genetic.

"Hey, don't blame me," Baby Doc says. "I'ts Al Qaeda's fault. Yeah, that's it. Al Qaeda. Heh heh heh..."