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Civil war:A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire. Civil war is usually a high intensity stage in an unresolved political struggle for national control of state power. As in any war, the conflict may be over other matters such as religion, ethnicity, or distribution of wealth. Some civil wars are also categorized as revolutions when major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of the conflict.

According to President Bush, there is of course no civil war in Iraq…

Tuesday, December 21, 2004
 Iraq’s interim prime minister warned Monday that the rebels were trying to foment a sectarian war in the country, as thousands of mourners attended funerals in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf (search) and Karbala (search) a day after car bomb attacks killed 67 people.

LONDON, March 19, 2006
(CBS/AP) Iraq is in the middle of a civil war, Iraq’s former prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. aired on Sunday.

Allawi said there was no other way to describe the increasing violence across the country.

"It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more," Allawi told the BBC. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Xinhua) — U.S. President George W. Bush flatly denied on Tuesday a civil war has broken out in Iraq, reaffirming his confidence of a ultimate U.S. victory in Iraq.
Speaking at a White House news conference aimed to confront doubts about his strategy in Iraq, Bush said, "we all recognized that there is violence, that there is sectarian violence. But the way I look at the situation is, the Iraqis looked and decided not to go into civil war."

In OTHER news. North Korea requests the same rights afforded to the US in the right to defensively strike first in order to protect itself. Sound familiar?
North Korea is entitled to launch a pre-emptive strike against the US rather than wait until the American military have finished with Iraq, the North’s foreign ministry told the Guardian yesterday.

Warning that the current nuclear crisis is worse than that in 1994, when the peninsula stood on the brink of oblivion, a ministry spokesman called on Britain to use its influence with Washington to avert war.

"The United States says that after Iraq, we are next", said the deputy director Ri Pyong-gap, "but we have our own countermeasures. Pre-emptive attacks are not the exclusive right of the US."

March 17, 2006

In his first major foreign policy review since 2002, President George W. Bush renewed his strike-first policy against terrorists and other U.S. enemies in a report Thursday.

"The president’s strategy affirms that the doctrine of preemption remains sound and must remain an integral part of our national security strategy," said Stephen Hadley, Bush’s national security adviser. "We do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy’s attack."

And additionally:
Pakistan’s failure to secure US nuclear technology for civilian use has triggered the most difficult challenge for the two countries since the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, Pakistani officials warned yesterday.

Amid growing criticism in Pakistan of the US agreement to supply civil nuclear technology to India, Pakistan’s ambassador to Washingtoncalled for the two south Asian countries to be treated equally.

"Instead of a country-specific deal on a subject as critical as nuclear technology, there should be a package for both India and Pakistan," said Jehangir Karamat, Pakistan’s former army chief, in Dawn, the country’s English-language newspaper.

Islamabad officials said Pakistan, which is the closest US ally in the war on terror, was pressing Washington for concessions similar to those offered to Delhi during this month’s visit to south Asia by President George W. Bush

Jeez. you’d think other nations had the same world rights as the US or something.