Posted on 01/09/2005 7:54:06 AM PST by PopGonzalez
"A report says government officials are reviewing a page from their old playbook to help deal with Iraqi guerrillas: sending special forces to train "death squads" to help install order."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Death Squads - certainly the Christian way.
SOG
I recommend the IRS.
I would hope that all of our forces are adept at causing death. But if we've got some more tricks up our sleeve lets use them.
Fighting fire with fire? Whose Karma is whose?
Probably best to train Iraqis in this technique. It is a dirty technique used to deal with dirty, terroristic tactics. Not for the faint-of-heart or those worshiping at the altar of world opinion.
I was wondering what took us so long. The "insurgents" have no rights under the Geneva convention as they do not follow the rules of war. Neither should we.
When they do it, they are insurgents. When those working with us do it, they are "death squads."
I guess that beheading people does not qualify as causing death.
On the one hand I love the idea and it's about time someone thought of this.
On the other hand,
BlowBack Warning...
Wouldn’t work now. Eisenhower didn’t have television reporters, stupid troops with digital cameras, nor Bianca Jagger primping to do her school of assassins gig (think Ft. Bennings’ School of the Americas) on O’Reilly’s show.
Oh, what the heck. Let’s give it a try.
And the moment the new Iraqi government is sworn into office, let’s introduce their secret police to some of those School of the Americas graduates.
If we can get Iraqis to care at all. I wish they would stop calling this the Salvadorean solution, it clearly is the 007 solution.
I like it; do it fast and get it under control.
They aren't death squads....good grief...
They are terrorist interdiction units...
nip it in the bud
We have had some experience in this area. - Tom
We go to Managua, Nicaragua to speak with Fr. Miguel D'Escoto, a Catholic priest who was Nicaragua's Foreign Minister under the Sandinista government in the 1980s.
"The 8 years Reagan was in office represented one of the most bloody eras in the history of the Western hemisphere, as Washington funneled money, weapons and other supplies to right wing death squads. And the death toll was staggering - more than 70,000 political killings in El Salvador, more than 100,000 in Guatemala, 30,000 killed in the contra war in Nicaragua.
In Washington, the forces carrying out the violence were called "freedom fighters."
This is how Ronald Reagan described the Contras in Nicaragua: "They are our brothers, these freedom fighters and we owe them our help. They are the moral equal of our founding fathers."
After the elections and the appointment of a legally elected Iraqi government, how the Iraqi’s handle their unruly citizens is their business. However, if Iraqi law enforcement agencies should ask the U.S. for such things as plastic chippers and training on how to use them, I’m sure we would see fit to give them all the assistance they needed.
Remember Phoenix?
The terrorists we are fighting in Iraq now only understand one thing; the fist. If you can't strike them quickly, adeptly, and violently they will continue with their actions. However, if you show them that they will be ruthlessly hunted down, that will give them pause, and when the people that harbor them see that their actions will be met with the same type of violence parceled out to the terrorists, they will stop (worked like a charm in Columbia).
I feel that we needed to take these types of actions for some time. Too bad the press got wind of this.
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