70 dead in Iraq. Is it civil war yet???

[spanone]

So what is the benchmark for civil war?? 200 dead a day?

500, 1000?

:mad:

[marmar]

1. It's been well underway for a while now.

:cry:

[geckosfeet]

2. If someone objects to calling it civil war they sure as hell

cannot find any reasonable (or sane) objection to calling it widespread civil violence and sectarian genocide.

Once you make that (tiny) intellectual leap, you really need to ask what the difference between widespread civil violence and civil war is.