What is intersting about this thread to me is it was posted under the "Step One" forum. No where in AA's steps does it say you have to recognize or accept alcoholism as a disease. For the record, here is AA's step one:
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable
Plenty of room here for those that believe that alcoholism is a disease, and for those that don't.
I believe in staying in the solution not in arguing over terminology or semantics.