Iraq Reviews > Press Briefing by Stephen Hadley 2/2/07 (Topic: Iraq)

[White House Press Corps.org] Hadley, I want to go back to the term "civil war." The administration has really gone out of its way not to use that term, "civil war," in the same way that Don Rumsfeld wouldn't call it a "guerilla war" when it was, or an "insurgency" when it was. Why do you go out of your way not to use that word?

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