Papers -Editorial: Why Media Did Not Call the Iraq Conflict a "Civil War" (MSNBC News) "The reason the Bush administration doesn’t want this called a civil war isn’t hard to figure. Once that threshold is crossed, support for American involvement will fall further, as Americans ask why their sons and daughters should be killed and maimed as part of some other country’s family feud. The Bush argument that Iraq is the 'central front in the war on terror' rings hollow when the 'enemy' has become a bunch of Iraqi tribes that hate each other." "But why has the news media gone along with this fiction for so many months?" 11-06

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