Iraq Civil War?

Hmm well according to the online dictionary it is "a war between opposing groups within a country" and according to my "The American Century Dictionary" it s definition is "war between citizens of the same country". Now while I am welling to concede that not all the participants are not all Iraq civilians. But even our Civil War attracted a number of adventurers.

So where does this leave us? With A White House in deep denial that they have lost any kind of control on the ground. Fueled no doubt by ours and the British willingness to want to resolve this mess in a more timely matter.

Simple English, we all want out. We all want it to happen now. Unfortunately by expressing that thought with the likely action for carrying it out. The various factions, who no doubt are supported in part in Iran and likely Syria, have ramped up the violence to an almost crescendo.

However this does leave us with a knotty problem that must be resolved. To whit: Will the present Iraqi government stand after we leave? The short answer is... Not too likely.

And that has a lot of people here in Washington D.C. and London worried. For perhaps very good reasons. The least of which both the British and we Americans toppled a legitimate regime. Please lets not get in to why Saddam had to go. The fact remains he headed the legitimate government of Iraq up until we walked in threw the bum out.

However we are now, at the least morally, responsible for the Iraqi Government at present. So we must some how tell this new government that it is time to stand on their own. As well as love us after we leave.

We have accomplished the first part. At least as far as the insurgents are concerned. But the real question is; Will these people love after we have left? I hope they do, but lets face it the ongoing Civil War and that Gentle Reader is what is happening in Iraq. That perhaps has been happening for a long time. Only now we are having to face the fact we have allowed ourselves be lied to. We have bought the whole "those people who opposed the now Legitimate Iraqi Government were foreign fighter from Syria, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere" sop.

Now we as a people are having to face the truth. Those people that are opposing the Iraqi government are the Iraqis themselves. Yes, there have been some foreign fighter mixed in. However as we have all been aware of. Might have found it hard to accept is that its the people themselves expressing a desire to change a government to their liking.

A civil war. Some, perhaps a significant minority, Likes the closeness that Washington and London would afford them. Unfortunately until the Iraqi people as majority decide that they want a government that is friendly to the "west" we may have a government that will emerge that will despise us and the "west".

The question is not whether it is a civil war. It is. The real question should we have invaded? The short answer seems to be coming down on the side of no we should not have gone in there no matter who was in charge.

History will in 50 or a hundred years will decide on this. But for now we will deal with a civil war that this Administration refuses to acknowledge. In might even be a denial of Dr. Seussian proportions.