and when night falls, neighborhoods become open battlegrounds."

chilling words and they come from our service members in iraq. there IS a civil war and it started a while ago. this is NO crisis, or conflict or scrape up. IT'S A WAR and WE stirred it up (granted it MAY have happened any way, with or without us, but we'll never know now).

U.S.Troops in Iraq Tell McClatchy Reporter: Yes, It is a 'Civil War'

By E&P Staff Published: August 04, 2006 9:45 PM ET
NEW YORK U.S. generals have had their say this week. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld has spoken, so has Secretary of State Rice. Pundits, as usual, have weighed in, and weighed in again. Finally a reporter asked the real experts: U.S. troops in Iraq.Tom Lasseter, longtime reporter for the Knight Ridder bureau in Baghad -- now run by McClatchy -- is heading back to the U.S. after many tours in Iraq, but before leaving, he took another embed this past week. His report for McClatchy papers today opened, "While American politicians and generals in Washington debate the possibility of civil war in Iraq, many U.S. officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad say it has already begun. "Army troops in and around the capital interviewed in the last week cite a long list of evidence that the center of the nation is coming undone: Villages have been abandoned by Sunni and Shiite Muslims; Sunni insurgents have killed thousands of Shiites in car bombings and assassinations; Shiite militia death squads have tortured and killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Sunnis; and when night falls, neighborhoods become open battlegrounds."........