Three years after Saddam's fall, US report says Iraq is in turmoil

At a time when it's been revealed that George Bush is thinking of launching nuclear weapons against Iran, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak became the latest leader to suggest that Iraq was close to civil war. In damaging comments over the weekend, he also claimed that Shia inside Iraq were more loyal to Iran than to their own country.

Hmmm. One wonders what effect a nuclear attack would have within Iraq? I hardly think it would be a stabilising one.

But the British rushed to dismiss any talk of civil war as nonsense.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw also took issue with Mr Mubarak's comments, saying that there was a "high level of slaughter" in Iraq but that the country had not descended into civil war.

There. Feel better. It's not civil war stupid, "it's a high level of slaughter". You surely know the difference?

Actually, I can't see any difference. If you can, put your answers on a postcard.

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