AP: Rice: Iraq Isn't Sliding Into Civil War

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Rice: Iraq Isn't Sliding Into Civil War

By KEVIN FREKING

WASHINGTON Aug 7, 2006 (AP)— The Bush administration continues to insist
Iraq is not heading toward a civil war, even as some senators and military
leaders have expressed concerns that such a conflict may be inevitable.

"It would be, really, erroneous to say that the Iraqis are somehow making
a choice for civil war, or, I think, even sliding into civil war," Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

But Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., an influential member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, sounded more pessimistic and questioned whether the U.S.
should keep sending more troops to Iraq.

Hagel said this country cannot "ask them to do the things that we're asking
them to do in the middle of a civil war, and that's where it's headed."

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Full article: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2281169

Apparently everybody sees a civil war in Iraq except the Bush administration.