More easy predictions: Iraq will never have a civil war

"In Iraq, we'll never be in civil war," al-Maliki told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."

Here is another prediction that cannot fail. As pointed out recently, he who controls the dictionary controls the world. Since we define what "civil war" means, like we define and redefine "freedom", "democracy", "human rights", and of course, what is and is not torture, then Iraq can come infinitely close to a civil war without ever technically reaching it. An inch away, a half inch, one third of a trillionth of an inch away, and still we never have to say it actually is having one, never mind that we set it off. So far the non-war supposedly, if put in US terms, the only terms Americans can seem to understand, in terms of population count, would have cost over a million lives and the monthly loss of life would be the equivalent of tens of thousands of dead, high percentages women and children, newly dead month in and month out, but never does it need to be thought of or called a civil war. We invented the undeclared war, mainly for purposes of getting around Constitutionally mandated congressional authorization, so we never actually have to say there is a civil war there either. But then we never have to look them in the eye and tell them how much better off they are with torture and human rights abuses by their new government and/or government supported death squads at higher levels than they had before we "helped" them.