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Civil war in Iraq NBC News deserves a salute for calling a spade a spade. Monday, the network's newscasts began referring to the Iraq conflict as a civil war, a phrase that President Bush and many of his administration has avoided and denied. Matt Lauer of the "Today" show said that "after careful consideration, NBC News has decided that a change in terminology is warranted, that the situation in Iraq with armed militarized factions fighting for their own political agendas can now be characterized as civil war." And with Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites and other fractions killing one another in ever increasing numbers every day, that is the only term that can be used. The Iraqi government is unable or unwilling to control its own people and the U.S. is now caught in the middle. Whether we were correct to go to Iraq in the first place is debatable but it is becoming clearer every day that our presence there is not contributing to peace and stability. The groups that had been fighting us exclusively are now fighting each other, too. The conflict is rightly termed a civil war. Civil wars are best left to individual countries to settle. The United States has no business in Iraq.
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