"Wolfowitz Fedayeen"

[Cocoa]

I thought I'd share this, from Juan Cole's short take on the proposed Iraqi death squads.

http://www.juancole.com/2005/01/us-kills-14-innocents-7-ukrainians-die.html

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Newsweek reports that the US Pentagon is considering an El Salvador strategy in Iraq, of forming Iraqi Special Forces units to engage the Iraqi guerrillas. In Central America, this sort of policy produced death squads that killed leftists (and sometimes nuns) indiscriminately. If the US is seriously thinking of reintroducing death squads into Iraq (they used to be called Saddam Fedayeen; are they now to be Wolfowitz Fedayeen?), then it really is time to try to get the US Department of Defense back out of Iraq before it completely ruins the country. The Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz/Feith notion of dealing with some terrorists in Fallujah was to displace and damage the entire city (notably not a tactic the British used against the IRA in Belfast, but then the Irish are at least Europeans). If the DoD now introduces death squads, it is likely the prelude to a military coup (Iraqi Special Operations troops who have a license to kill would have an advantage in plotting a take-over of the country.)

[HereSince1628]

1. Deja Vu, I think I read this in a Clancy Novel...

Didn't Clancy do the "anti-terrorism hit aquad" concept in a Rainbow Six? US Special forces and British SAS united to snuff out terrorists?

[Been Fishing]

2. What are you to do with these "Special Operations troops"

after they wipe out the opposition?

Will they be killed so that they can't be used against "legitimate" government officials?

Will they become the core of someone's private army?

Will they "turn" and support Osama?

Bring them to the USA and put them in the Witness Protection Program?

Bet the military has contingency plans for all alternative outcomes.

[Cocoa]

4. you fight them later

maybe 20 years down the line.

[clem_c_rock]

3. They just never stop going deeper and deeper

And we have the specialist, Joe death squad himself, Negreponte in place.

A PNAC downloadable document, free to everyone that spells all this out; 14 bases; never an exit strategy; disbanding the Iraqi army; Negreponte; and now this.

Can things ever be clearer??

And the general US dipshit still believes it's about democracy.

[Stephanie]

5. Did you see Mo Dowd this weekend?

The arrogant Bush war council never admits a mistake. Paul Wolfowitz, a walking mistake, said on Friday he's been asked to remain in the administration. But the "idealists," as the myopic dunderheads think of themselves, are obviously worried enough, now that Mr. Bush is safely re-elected, to let a little reality seep in. Rummy tapped a respected retired four-star general to go to Iraq this week for an open-ended review of the entire military meshugas.

Mr. Wolfowitz, who devised the debacle in Iraq, is kept on, while Brent Scowcroft, Poppy Bush's lieutenant who warned Junior not to go into Iraq, is pushed out as chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. That's the backward nature of this beast: Deceive, you're golden; tell the truth, you're gone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/opinion/09dowd.html?oref=login&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fMaureen%20Dowd