“Ah tawkt ta Iraqi leaders an’ they tell me that Mardi Gras season is always a l’il crazy in the country. Lotsa guys have fights over parkin’ spaces and gittin’ cut off in traffic. You know–road rage. It’s alsa tam the Super Bowl bets is gittin’ ta be 30 days old an’ bookies get jumpy so there’s a-ah-lotta bad blood out there. Why I jus’ heard ’bout a woman who got a l’il hot cause another lady wentinna ’spress lane with more ‘an 12 ahtems. When the lady ‘fused ta budge, the second woman pulls a .357 ‘n kills her ‘n the check out woman. That’s not civil war. That’s jus touchy people.”
REUTERS reported that W. says Iraq is not hurtling toward a civil war despite the increased violence which resulted in 1,300 deaths within a 5-day period.