U.S. Rejects Idea That Iraq Near Civil War
The Bush administration on Monday rejected assertions by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a close Arab ally, that Iraq is descending into civil war. “That’s not our assessment,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. “We don’t share that assessment.” Mubarak said in a television interview Saturday that civil war “has almost started” in Iraq and that an American troop withdrawal would only make the situation worse. Full Story