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DON LEMON: Joining us now
from Baghdad, CNN's Michael Ware.
Why is the Army hesitant to call the situation in
Iraq a civil war, Michael?
MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, because that's
a clear admission of strategic failure on the part of
not only the administration but the U.S. military.
To countenance the thought that the American invasion
and subsequent occupation, rather than having rose
petal-laid democracy rise up from the ashes of
Saddam's tyranny, instead to actually unleash a civil
war and a sectarian divide of the like unknown before
the American presence in this country, is a clear
statement they're not willing to make.
As we saw today, in the press briefing by the U.S.
military here in Baghdad, General Caldwell dodged
around even defining in general terms what the
military here would consider civil war, not regarding
Iraq. He wouldn't even give the definition of civil
war. And one suspects that perhaps it's within his
briefing that he's not even meant to use the term --
Don.
LEMON: All right, CNN's Michael Ware, live for us in
Baghdad. Thank you so much for that.