Did GWB really say this?

GWB was asked today if he thought that Iraq was in a civil war.

The President replied: “It’s hard for me living in this beautiful White House to give you an assessment, a first hand assessment. I haven’t been there. You have, I haven’t. But I do talk to people who are and people whose judgment I trust and they would not qualify it as that. There are others who think it is.”

So where did he think he was when he visited the troops in Iraq over the last few years?