CNN is reporting 144 dead in Sadr city today. It looks like the Sunnis and Shias in Iraq are celebrating turkey day by bombing and mortaring each other's neighborhoods and churches. I'm not sure what the official Bush administration talking point regarding civil war is right now. The last one I remember is the one where it's not a civil war yet, but there is a potential for the situation to dissolve into a civil war. October topped September for the bloodiest month since the invasion and November is looking like a contender for the title. They're killing each other by the hundreds every day. Last week General John P. Abizaid estimated we have 6 months or less to get control of the security situation in Iraq. I think the General needs to put down the crack pipe.
There is no longer any security in Iraq. One hundred thousand families have already fled the country and you have to figure those that are leaving are the ones with the means to do so, i.e. the wealthy, the educated, the moderate. As time goes by there is less and less of the old Iraq to secure. The country is being restructured along ethnic lines via mass murder and intimidation. All that's going to be left in some of those neighborhoods are the poor and the crazy. Not a lot of hope there.