On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Ayanami^Rei wrote:

Bugs Bunny is anime.

And I'm Elmer Fudd.  Be vewwy vewwy quiet.  I'm hunting wabbits.

At a technical level, it -is- anime. Anime is simply short for animation.
And we've had this debate before, on the FFML. 

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