Contractor: No civil war in Iraq exists

Carter Andress, civilian contractor and proponent of a prolonged US occupation in Iraq, wrote a commentary in the conservative Wall Street Journal that contradicts a seemingly endless string of evidence about the current state of affairs in Iraq.  This morning, Andress wrote that the US is winning, and that Iraq is not in a state of civil war:

Slowly but surely, Iraqi security services are building up. You onlyhave to travel outside the Green Zone to see them undertaking heroicrisks as they work to control the streets in growing numbers and withgrowing professionalism. In the past couple of months, the Ministry ofthe Interior established an operations center for all of Baghdad thateffectively coordinates nonmilitary logistics movements throughout thecapital -- a function previously only undertaken by a coalitioncontractor. From chaos has come order and in turn, step by step, theIraqi military is becoming a truly national, not sectarian, force.

I see no civil war between the Shias and Sunnis as I travel practicallyevery day on the roads of Iraq with my Arab and Kurdish security team.The potential for renewed internecine warfare faded earlier this year,when al Qaeda failed to reignite the waning sectarian struggle thesecond time around with another attack on the Golden Mosque in Samarra.

Andress' subjective claims contradict actual numbers that put the sectarian death toll rate  at twice what it was before the troop surge began.  Furthermore, since the implementation of the surge strategy, 600,000 more Iraqis been internally displaced.