BAGDAD -- Many ordinary Iraqis facing an Iraqi civil war report being heady with nostalgia for the momentous precipice on the country now stands.
    "With countless sectarian quasi-terrorist factions tearing the families apart, the ubiquitous melancholy is quite palpable," said Omar Ghazaliya, a hospital worker in Bagdad. "You know that in some families, some brothers fight for one quasi-terrorist sectarian faction, while another will fight for a different quasi-terrorist sectarian faction?"
    Some Iraqis, however, bristle at the term "civil war" to describe the current conflict. "The term 'civil war' is misleading and offensive," said Jalal Khalil, a leading Iraqi scholar. "We prefer the term, War between the Countless Quasi-terrorist Sectarian Factions."