Our fabulous SecDef has been "musing over" the meaning of "civil war"

[Rose Siding]

Asked yesterday "Is (Iraq) closer to a civil war?"

SEC. RUMSFELD: Oh, I don't know. You know, I thought about that last night, and just musing over the words, the phrase, and what constitutes it. If you think of our Civil War, this is really very different. If you think of civil wars in other countries, this is really quite different. There is -- there is a good deal of violence in Baghdad and two or three other provinces, and yet in 14 other provinces there's very little violence or numbers of incidents. So it's a -- it's a highly concentrated thing. It clearly is being stimulated by people who would like to have what could be characterized as a civil war and win it, but I'm not going to be the one to decide if, when or at all.

Hmmm...civil war. civil WAR Civil. War. ......civilwar!

One entry found for civil war.
Main Entry: civil war
Function: noun
: a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

[jimshoes]

1. Hey Don, check this out,

The people doin' the dieing aren't musing over anything. Each day they wake up knowing there is a good chance they will die today. That's heavy Don, sooner or later those people get accustomed to imminent death. That's why they strap TNT to their waists and go looking for someone to blow up.

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