Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, unlike his old boss, looks at what's going on in Iraq and proclaims the deadly obvious."I would call it a civil war," Powell told a business forum in the United Arab Emirates. "I have been using it (civil war) because I like to face the reality," added Powell.
He said world leaders should acknowledge Iraq was in civil war.
Powell outlined the case against Iraq at the U.N. Security Council ahead of the war, which was based broadly on intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
President George W. Bush denied on Tuesday that sectarian violence had reached the scale of civil war. He said the latest wave of violence was part of a nine-month-old pattern of attacks by al Qaeda militants aimed at fomenting sectarian tension.
THIS, OF COURSE, begs the question of how long, exactly, the United States can endure a chief executive whose default existential position is to close his eyes, cover his ears and yell "Neener, neener, neener! Cancel! Cancel! Cancel! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!!!!!!"
In other words, we in trouble, y'all.
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