As usual, CNN's Michael Ware paints a stark and depressing picture of the deteriorating security situation in Iraq. He details the never-ending (and escalating) violence and calls it what it is — a brutal civil war with no end in sight. For all the parsing of the term "civil war", Ware explains exactly why NBC is right in now officially characterizing it as one .

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Ware: If this is not a civil war, Wolf, I don't want to see one when it comes.