Civil War (n): Something that is absolutely not, Not, NOT happening in Iraq. (but something Fox News apparently wants desperately to happen in the US) Civil war is a conflict in which groups within a single country fight for separation, dominance or control from or of said nation. Iraq is merely in the grip of a faith-based inter-sectarian violent contention of differing opinions involving or impacting on a mere 99% of the country. By this same definition, World War II was simply an uncommonly open and widespread exchange of divergent and asymmetrical geopolitical views.