What part of civil war is it that many don't understand?

Question

According to The AP report by Steven B. Hurst, the UN reports that 34,452 civilians died in Iraq last Year alone. That's more than three times what the Iraqi Government reported. A average of 94 civilians each day. A total of 142 civilians were found dead yesterday. The Sunni minority are killing Shiites and even Shiites are killing other Shiites.
Yesterdays Twin car bombs killed 65 students in a North Central part of Baghdad, they were on there way home from the Number two University in Iraq.
Iraqi Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the attacks on "terrorists and Saddamist's"seeking revenge for Mondays hanging of two of Saddam's top aides.

By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomb struck a market Wednesday in the Shiite district of Sadr City, killing 13 people and wounding 20, police said, a day after a blast targeting university students killed 70 in what appeared to be a renewed campaign of Sunni insurgent violence against Shiite targets.

There will always be stupid people who will say "we lost more in car accidents", these types are brain dead. Anyone with even half a brain knows that if we had not invaded Iraq we would not have lost any.
Spc. Don Roberts 22, of Paonia, Colo. said this" What would more guys do, we can't pick sides, it's almost like we have to watch them kill each other." 1st. Lt. Sean McCaffrey 24, Shelton Conn. agrees. It's a civil war. This is civil war, any person with even half a brain calls this civil war.
Collen Powell calls this civil war. Our service members are not the Iraqi police. They should not be ask to become a part of the Iraqi sectarian civil war.

Answer 1

Some will show their ignorance by claiming that the media is a tool of the left or right, no they report facts, fact is that a civil war is going on in Iraq! You can not be a winner by being the middle man in any civil war, no other country invaded the US during its civil war, and thus its time to say good bye to all our Iraqi friends, and say may the best side win

Answer 2

From an online dictionary:
: a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

So, in broad terms the problem in Iraq has some of the properties of a civil war. However, much of the violence is planned and executed by people from other countries (Syria and Iran) and the effort is financed from without. Also, as you reported in your opening sentence, civilians were killed, while a war more connotes organized warfare between armies that wear uniforms and have structures and territory. If we are trying to be exact in our definition maybe it should be called an 'insurrection' or inter secular violence?
Personally, I am calling it a civil war even while recognizing the differences. I fully expect it to become a 'regional conflict' with brutal killings of civilian populations if US forces leave. Most of this stems from a 1400 year old disagreement within a religion over ideologies. It may in fact be appropriate to term it a religious war.

Answer 3

From an online dictionary:
: a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

I guess the US is in a civil war. The Bloods are at war with the Crips. MS13 is at war with everyone. The Aztecas are at war with the Mexican Mafia. These are all groups of citizens at war with other groups of citizens within the same country. Oh Yeah the death toll is higher in the US. Yet the Dem's refuse to recognise these problems because they are just minorities they are not important to the Dem's the want to maintain their practice of slavery. Through the minimum wages and welfare programs to keep the poor poor.



Prior to our going into Iraq, Saddam was killing in the range of 70,000 to 100,000 peaple a year. Saddam is responsible for killing over 2 million people in the 35 years her has ruled his nation. The United States had no idea how bad death and mayhem was until we were actually there. Are the sections of islam fighting? Yes Are we responsible fore this fight? Yes If we would not have gone into Iraq Saddam would still be killing around 100,000 people every year. Do we need to stay there until the total area not just 80% is safe and secure?

You libs cry and whine and whimper about all the lives that have been lost during the US "Occupation" but it would seem that you couldn't give 2 shakes of a stick to the 2 million+ Iraqis that died under Saddam. Oh yaeh the majority of those deaths were shia and kurd. Which means Saddam's actions were akin to ethnic cleansing. But as we know the Dem's dont care about ethnic cleansing. We know that they are the true racists of the world. It is teh Dem's that fought to keep slavery, they fought to keep segregation, they fought to ensure that the Blacks could not vote.

DO not allow the Dem's to fool you into thinking that they actually care about the lives of Iraqis or American's for that matter. All teh Dem's care about is regaining power.

Answer 4

http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/pdfdata/deathage/deathage2002
This is the number of deaths in California in 2002 with out a war.Iraq and California are comparable in size .The exaggerations and statements without context show a picture of the situation in Iraq that is not true.If you bother to do even a minimum of research you find that the conflicts in Iraq are no where near a civil war they are on the scale of gang violence and contained to one or two cities.If the truth were told there would be no doubt that the conflict is going in our direction and that the propaganda that comes through the media is more hype than fact.

Answer 5

I dont know I think they are saying Baghdad is in a civil war but the rest of Iraq is peaceful.
Sure sure it is.

Civil war is a civil war and we are just refereeing for these nut bags.

Answer 6

We wouldn't have lost ANY, if we hadn't attacked Iraq, huh? Sadam Hussein was a safety zone for Osama bin Laden, sir. He played a part in the murders of thousands of non-combatant American's as well as others, and you want us to sit down and play, instead of defeating a tyrant? You have a lot to learn about life, AND civil war.

Answer 7

It is a horrible situation over there. Now leave me alone, so I can bury my head back in the sand.

Answer 8

The Associated Press is a simple tool of the Left Wing Propaganda Machine... You always hear about the horrible things happening, but never about the good..

Answer 9

Pick sides. Destroy the Sunni Arabs or 'Kurdify' them. There is justice.

Answer 10

it is easier to ignore a problem than admit it. if you accept it responsibility will have to be accepted,then you have to fix it.