George W. Bush's Iraq: Now With Death Squads!!!

Oops, I mean "freedom brigades" [LA Times]

BAGHDAD — Shiite Muslim militia members have infiltrated Iraq's police force and are carrying out sectarian killings under the color of law, according to documents and scores of interviews. The abuses raise the specter of organized retaliation to attacks by Sunni-led insurgents that have killed thousands of Shiites, who endured decades of subjugation under Saddam Hussein. And they undermine the U.S. effort to stabilize the nation, and train and equip Iraq's security forces — the Bush administration's key prerequisites for the eventual withdrawal of American troops.

In recent months, hundreds of bodies have been discovered in rivers, garbage dumps, sewage treatment facilities and alongside roads and in desert ravines. Many of them are thought to be victims of Sunni insurgents, who are known to target Shiite civilians and Iraqi security forces, and even Sunni Arabs believed to be collaborating with U.S. forces or the Iraqi government. But increasingly, the Shiite militias operating within the national police force are also suspected of committing atrocities.

There's the proof that the United States has in fact pursued the "Salvador Option". Newsweek as well as other news agencies reported on this back in January 2005 when it appeared that the U.S. military was training Iraqi paramilitary units to conduct kidnappings and assassinations. As Crusader AXE noted below, once you train lawless thugs to be paramilitary killers, they quickly get out of your control. This is merely another act in a long chain of fuckups that will lead to an all-out civil war between Sunni and Shi'a.

On the bright side I think Ronald Reagan would be proud. If these Shi'ite death squads turn out to be effective, then maybe we can send them into Syria and Palestine to kill the Sunni there too! It's just too bad there aren't many Catholic nuns in the Middle East to rape and kill like there were in El Salvador. Maybe we can do that if we invade Venezuela.

Comments

[the quitter]

one question, what does a "lawless thug" trained to be a "paramilitary killer" who is IN control look like?

[Crusader AXE of the Lost Causes]

In answer to the quitter, Karl Rove.

As for if we invade Venezuala, think when...they have oil, we have more people who speak Spanish that we do Arabic or Farsi, and they're undermining Dick Cheney...err, the oil cartel...err, the whole Capitalist thing by selling cheaper heating oil to Massachusetts... they're on the list!

[blogenfreude]

well, they will be the moral equialent of our founding fathers ... well.