Mass Murder or Genocide?

Everybody makes mistakes. That is a given. But it takes a big person to admit they have made a mistake. And it takes a very small person to deny they made a mistake and lie about the consequences. Such is the case with President Bush. Not only will he not admit the war in Iraq was a mistake, based on faulty (or even fixed) intelligence, he still refuses to acknowledge that Iraq is in the middle of a civil war. Perhaps the denial is because war is about as far from civility as one can reach in these modern times.
The number of civilian casualties is the first number disputed. The Bush administration puts the number at 40,000, but then they haven't been doing an "official" body count of Iraqis killed, so that number can be disputed. A report by a team of researchers from Johns-Hopkins University and Columbia University put the number at 250,000 caused by the invasion alone. This number hasn't taken into account the recent sectarian violence tearing the country apart. And it doesn't take into account the use of weaponized uranium oxide gas, a by-product of depleted uranium rounds, which is sure to cause more deaths and birth defects in Iraqis, as well as our troops stationed over there for an extensive peiod of time.
Some of the deaths by US forces are not just collateral damage (i.e., oopsie, you're dead. My Bad.) but are caused by over reaction by US troops when attacked, as in the case of a retaliation in November of 2005 where Marines attacked and killed 15 Iraqi civilians following the death of a Marine from a roadside bomb, including seven women and three children still in their nightclothes. This incident was caught on videotape.
Given the stress that our troops must operate under, it's understandable where they may overeact in these situations, but it does not make it acceptable. However, now sectarian violence has broken out in the country, as Shi'ite militias, backed by government forces, are killing Sunni Muslims in a cycle of revenge. This is the civil war that Bush is denying.
Conservatives talk about how the birth of Democracy is a painful thing (especially if you're a Sunni Muslim, but not if you're a conservative sitting on your ass here at home and never having had to put it on the line)But at this point, are we helping with the birthing of a democracy? If Iraq is deteriorating into a civil war with our troops there, what's the point of keeping them there? The homicide rate in Bagdad has tripled to 33 a day, and either we can't do anything about it, or we won't do anything about it. By the end of the year at this rate, that will total over nine thousand deaths. At what point does it cease to be mass murder and become in fact genocide? How many more civilians will be killed by death squads before Bush realizes this is a civil war?
Are we staying in Iraq to prevent a civil war, or are we there to enable the obvious ethnic cleansing going on there? Was the whole purpose to start a civil war, thereby directing Muslim animosity towards each other and away from Israel? Or was it really always about the oil? Or is it, like the upcoming war in Iran, just an act of ethnic cleansing, rich white men clearing out the region of all the brown skinned people so they can control the oil rich Middle eastern countries? Or is this, in some convoluted way, part of the war on "terror"?
Which reminds me, where's Osama?