WHITE HOUSE SAYS IRAQ NOT IN CIVIL WAR

While the Bush administration admits there are some hints of unruly behavior occurring in Iraq, it claims these isolated incidents do not constitute a civil war. “We don’t want to pigeonhole a few suicide bombings, machine gun and mortar assaults and kidnappings as something more than they are,” said White House spokesman Tony Snow. "That's like saying all the falafel balls in a pita sandwich have rebelled and taken sides when it's really just a few bad garbanzo beans. Iraqis voted in free elections and went to the polls as one people, in one country, under one God. They are merely experiencing the growing pains of a burgeoning democracy.” "Snowy, you're doing one heckuva job," the President added.