There are still a few on the right (mainly in the administration) who would
want to make you think that Iraq has calmed down and is going well again. Well
this sure doesn’t have that same song and dance:

Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week’s
bombing of a Shiite shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the
past few days the deadliest of the war outside of major U.S. offensives,
according to Baghdad’s main morgue. The toll was more than three times
higher than the figure previously reported by the U.S. military and the news
media.

Hundreds of unclaimed dead lay at the morgue at midday Monday —
blood-caked men who had been shot, knifed, garroted or apparently suffocated
by the plastic bags still over their heads. Many of the bodies were sprawled
with their hands still bound — and many of them had wound up at the morgue
after what their families said was their abduction by the Mahdi Army, the
Shiite militia of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

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I don’t know how Bush defines civil war but with that many dead within a
single country it certainly appears to fall closer into the standard definition.