Word: sectarian
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...you’ve come to realize the full horror of the administration’s Iraqi adventure. The daily diet of car bombs, the dead, and the endless destruction cannot have slipped your attention. Sure, the news might come neatly packaged in the phrase “sectarian slaughter,” but it’s hard to read the death count day after day without feeling something more significant is taking place...
...face of overwhelming agreement amongst the country’s civil war academics and a handfull of its perceptive foreign correspondents. Even so, the majority of news organizations, as catalogued by Think Progress, continue to toe the line and opt for cutesy alliterative terms like “snowballing sectarian violence,” courtesy of Fox News, or “sectarian slaughter,” of the San Francisco Chronicle...
...Bush administration's main goal in Iraq at the moment is to halt the sectarian killings - blamed in large part on Shi'ite militias, including the armed wing of Hakim's own party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Known as the Badr Organization, the militia was formed in Iran during the Saddam era, and it is known to take guidance (and, some of its critics allege, perhaps even its orders) from Tehran. U.S. officials have been pressing the Iraqi government to disarm such militias. The President brought up that suggestion at his breakfast meeting with...
...Lauer here. Second: Cronkite's language--"We are mired in stalemate"--was far stronger. Third: some newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor, quietly started using "civil war" earlier (as did TIME). Last: polls and common sense indicated that most Americans already believed Iraq's sectarian fighting was a civil...
...There's all kinds of speculation about what may or may not be happening." GEORGE W. BUSH, dismissing the use of the term civil war. The U.S. President's preferred phraseology: "sectarian violence...