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Matt Lauer, on the NBC Today show, declared the unpleasantness in Iraq to be a Civil War.  He said two clearly defined groups within a country using violence to achieve political supremacy a Civil War makes.

NBC military analyst, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, backed him up agreeing the Sunnis are a group, so are the Shia, and they are using violence.

National Security adviser, Stephen Hadley, told Tim Russert on Meet the Press yesterday that things are going according to al Qaeda's plans.

"Zarqawi articulated very early on a strategy for provoking sectarian violence
by attacking Shi'a so they, in turn, would attack Sunni. This was part
of their strategy to sow chaos, to thwart the advance of democracy and
make Iraq a safe haven for terror."

So the Bush argument that it's not a civil war, seems to be that it's still a war against al Qaeda and we're losing.