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November 29, 2006

Confused Americans for Truth - An Uncivil War

by Ferdinand T Cat

The BBC reports that the US media are calling the Iraq conflict a "civil war". This is, of course, not the first time we've heard that analysis. Classifying the Iraq conflict as a civil war is an important step in the process of forcing the Bush Administration to pull out, so it's an important distinction.

There is no question that the level of violence has been increasing for the past two months, and Barry Lando, a prominent Iraq war critic, points out that the per capita death toll for October is higher than the death toll in the American Civil War.

But the American Civil War was fought between armies. The people who weren't in the army weren't at risk. If you look at this page, you'll see that the Union army was 2,778,304 strong, and lost 110,070 to battle wounds. Using Lando's math, that would be equivalent to 20,634 Iraqi deaths per month, a huge difference from the 3709 that actually occurred in October.

In a typical civil war, one side represents the government. The government is neither Shi'ite nor Sunni, so it is not a party to what's going on, except in the sense that it's trying to get the real combatants to back off. Since the government is not involved, and the attacks are on ethnic boundaries, these are not acts of war, they're hate crimes. The Left is trying to paint this as a civil war but in fact what they are asking us to do is stop trying to prevent hate crimes!

I'm sorry, but this has gone beyond stupid into bizzare.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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This is another way the MSM is into controlling the masses. You know, I loved the TV show Max Headroom -- but lately, the MSM is bringing flashbacks of that show to me and how the networks controlled everything.


Posted by: Jo at November 29, 2006 11:19 AM

ha! I was thinking if this is a civil war then what was Kosovo? and why is it okay to be there and not Iraq?


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