1.300 Iraqis killed since bombing of Shiite Muslim Shrine.

Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite Muslim 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.

I have to apologize because I am new to the whole "civil war" thing, but how many deaths does it take between two opposing forces before we can call it a civil war? In my opinion 1,300 dead seems like an awfully high number to just write off as deaths caused by a few insurgents. This country is having a civil war and America is going to have to acknowledge it eventually.

Look the Iraqis are not at all confused about what is going on;

"And they say there is no sectarian war?" demanded one man. "What do you call this?"

Yeah, what do you call this?