Yellow Dog

The Salvador Option

For some mysterious reason Iraqi insurgents want the U.S. out of their country, and Rumsfeld and his band of Reagan era Iran-Contra rejects can't figure out what to do about it. For crying out loud, what does an occupying military need to do in order to be greeted with smiles and flowers these days? Torture didn't work. Randomly raiding houses didn't work. Bombing homes of innocent families didn't work. Killing hundreds of women, children and elderly men while cleansing Fallujah didn't work. With all of those honorable tactics proving futile in winning the hearts and minds of the ungrateful Iraqi people, the monkeys in charge put their innocent little heads together and came up with a great idea: Death Squads! Yeah, that worked great down in El Salvador! Dust off those secret old Central American strategeries, George. We have the players all in place, and it's time to unleash the murdering thugs!

Now, NEWSWEEK has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration’s battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers [family members]. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success—despite the deaths of innocent civilians and the subsequent Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal. (Among the current administration officials who dealt with Central America back then is John Negroponte, who is today the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Under Reagan, he was ambassador to Honduras.)

Let freedom reign! Thank you Bush voters for restoring honor and dignity to the Whitehouse. Make sure you get some new patriotic magnetic "flair" for the back of your Hummers!




MSNBC - ‘The Salvador Option’