Louise Slaughter: “The Pentagon has now said that we are indeed enmeshed in a civil war and we now have a plan B. What we are going to do…”

“The Pentagon has now said that we are indeed enmeshed in a civil war and we now have a plan B. What we are going to do now is deal with insurgents so that we can try to pacify them and get pockets of peace somewhere, here and there in Iraq, never mind the Iraqi Government we have been holding up all this time. This may be news to him, but as far as I am concerned, the Pentagon has really called it straight, and I consider it a break with what the White House has been telling us. We know the President said time and again he would never negotiate with any insurgents. Well, that was yesterday.”