"Civil War. They've Said It!"

You cannot keep an untruth bottled up forever...

Every single presumption by this government has been shown to be either amazingly naive or untrue.

And even the media is now admitting that we are on a failed mission.

Now, it may all be too late to salvage anything!

Yesterday, one the anchor for one of the Networks along with a retired general assessed the situation in Iraq as being a Civil War--they called it a civil war. I didn't invent those words..

The General, McCAffrey, admitted that Civil War has been building for three years.

He also said words to the effect:....When there is a group of foreigners who come into a land and start shooting up the people....and divided groups start targeting each other, this is no longer a question of catching the "trouble-makers" from outside but an undeclared civil war. From the honest asssessment of both the senior reporter and a clear-eyed general, the future looks bleak unless something changes radically.

In the past week, literally hundreds of people in Baghdad, which seems to be the center of the Civil War, were killed by street bombs and attrocities. Clearly, we can no longer call this something it is not.

Civil War. Civil War. We should get used to saying the truth; not folding under Bush's PR barage that is falling short...

It is no longer an incursion, an "incident," and isolated event, or simply another bit of evidence that by takingthe war to the middle east, we saved ourselves from enduring it up close. It is none of those things. It is simply evidence of one major group alligned against the other. The Sunni and Shia hate each other. Nor can they coexist under the present circumstances and we will not admit the truth until this new government is dragged through the mud and the delegates disposed.

The big question becomes what then?

Right now, we persist in what is clearly a lost cause for no reason while Afghanistan, where we did have successes, is being lost because we took our eye off the ball and bin laden.

This government's arrogance is starting to wear thin.

And we have enough of their lies...

it is time to speak out....and often: A government that does not represent the people's wishes needs to be replaced with one that does...

Les Aaron