WOW!! The mainstream media is using the term "Civil War"

[Roon]

When can we start calling it a civil war anyway?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11491483/

[Eric J in MN]

1. " brink of civil war"

They're not calling it a civil war.

[Roon]

5. I didn't say they were calling it civil war

I said they were using the term, civil war. Pay attention.

[rzemanfl]

2. Tomorrrow after morning prayers sounds about right. n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. They're testing the phrase for the US and the future.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. jr's buddies are hard at work trying to set you straight about

what a civil war is/is not. Expect a lesson coming from your friendly rw talking head real soon.

[Alleycat]

6. What exactly constitutes a civil war?

Do the participants announce it? That's it we are at war!

[951-Riverside]

7. COME FIGHT EACH OTHER ALREADY DAMN IT!!!

So we can take your land and make it a base of conquering the middle east and oh right take your oil so we can fatten our pockets!

[Alleycat]

8. A serious side note

What if Iran decides to pick a side?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. They have--they're funding Shiite militia.

It's all about to explode into the biggest shitstorm since Southeast Asia went up in flames and millions died.

The Chimp and his butt buddies are about to be swimming in the blood of innocents.

Which . . . doesn't seem to worry them so much.

[catmother]

9. does bushco really think we can keep the peace during a civil

war? what if during our civil war another country came in and either took sides or tried to stop it? what do you think would have happened to them?

[enigma000]

11. Unite & fight the foreign foe and then fight one another

Perhaps.......but keep in mind the Revolutionary War was, in many ways, a civil war. A third of the population supported the American patriots, a third supported the Crown and a third didn't care. That was a civil war.

The US doesn't want to take sides in Iraq. But I don't see everyone in Iraq going after the Americans - I mean they could be powerful allies after all (choice: friend or foe of world's only superpower) All things considered, having America on your side is an advantage.

Just thinking.......

[reDEMption]

12. Yes

It's been long-anticipated that the Sunnis and Shiites would have a difficult time negotiating a peaceful co-existence. In many places around the world, where muslim groups meet, they are at one another's throat.

They are really going to have to decide if they want real peace, or not. An outside force has only a limited chance to install a democracy; the people, ultimately, must want it for themselves.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

13. Exactly.

Such a shame that the NeoCons didn't even bother to try to understand the differences that have been there for hundreds of years. Bush didn't even know there WERE Sunnis and Shiites.

:dunce:


Hey, welcome to DU!

[reDEMption]

14. Thanks for the welcome!

"Bush didn't even know there WERE Sunnis and Shiites."




We'd better not tell him about the Sufis, then!!:rofl:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

15. His pea-brain would . . .

:nuke: trying to comprehend a third, PEACEFUL, group.