The US government uses 'the' term now too

The US government until now refrained from calling the situation in Iraq a 'civil war', yet the US media began naming it as such in very recently. This was a move against the objections of the US government which now recently made a very interesting statement, or rather Secretary of State made a very interesting statement to the Forum of United Emirates "'I have been using it [civil war] because I like to face the reality,'" is the statement that was published in Al Jazeera.

Here is the link to the article that was previously published here
Iraq...(Paladin101)

Here is the link to the complete article
Powell: Iraq in civil war (Al Jazeera)