Is there a civil war in Iraq or not?

Larry Johnson certainly thinks so:

The denial in question is why most of the US media and the Bush Administration persist in refusing to accept the reality of the civil war already well underway in Iraq? What do we need in order to be convinced? Guys wearing blue and butternut squaring off in an apple orchard in Gettysburg?

... When a government is confronted by persistent, widespread attacks and is unable to quash them then a civil war exists. ...

The war does not have to engulf most of Iraq. We should remember that our own Civil War was confined primarily to the South. The vast majority of the Northern States were not battlegrounds but did provide soldiers to fight the war. The average American during our Civil War did not have to wake up each morning wondering if they would be bombed while going to the market or to church.

The real choice for the United States is to figure out if we can accept another sectarian state that resembles Iran. Given the current rhetoric directed at the mullahs in Tehran I do not see an accommodation with the clerics in Iraq as a politically viable strategy for any U.S. Administration, Republican or Democrat. Our first step should probably be to figure out the Iraqi term for Appomatox. (The Nile in Iraq? No Quarter blog 02/27/06)

Did he say Appomattox? The place where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army and the Lost Cause came to an official end?

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