Tony Snow on Iraq

From CNN's PM Political Ticker on 12/18:

"Snow also downplayed Powell's description of the situation as a "civil war," a label that the administration has rejected.

"What he talks about is the most serious phase began earlier this year, with the blowing up of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, that turned into sect-on-sect violence, communitarian violence, which is what I think is generated into what some of us are calling, anyway, a civil war," Snow said. "That's what he's calling; we call it a situation of alarming sectarian violence."

"A situation of alarming sectarian violence"??? Thanks Tony...of course it is not a civil war, only a situation of alarming sectarian violence. Duh. What planet is the White House on?