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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I personally think the "insurgency," which is really a misnomer, is being blown out of proportion. We are talking not only about a very small portion of the population, but also a very small portion of the geography. No shadow government, no popular support. In other words, it's a dead end.

Plus, the recent reports in Newsweek that we're planning to set up death squads in Iraq (John Negroponte is going to do for the Middle East what he did for Central America) can leave us all confident that the war is finally on the right course. Giblets approves:

• the US military is considering starting up "Special Forces-led assasination or kidnapping squads" in Iraq, and it's about damn time. As one military source told Newsweek, "The Sunni population is paying no price for the support it is giving to the terrorists. From their point of view, it is cost-free. We have to change that equation." Very true. Right now the only price Iraqis are paying is a wasted infrastructure, a looming civil war, and a civilian death toll of at least fifteen thousand bodies. If they're gonna cry over that spilled milk, then let's give 'em something to really cry about! Giblets bets they'll be just begging to go back to chemically-burnt genitalia once they've had a couple weeks of roving death squads killing their friends and relatives!
  
  The same old liberal pansies are gonna say "oh but I do not like killing lots of people because I am a great big girl." But if we don't go slaughtering Sunnis en masse in an organized terror campaign, how will they ever learn to respect their boundaries, obey their elders, and become a stable pro-Western democracy? This is the same lesson America learned from George Washington when he ended the Whiskey Rebellion by crucifying half the state of Pennsylvania on his front lawn....

Nuns pray over the bodies of four American sisters killed by the military in El Salvador in 1980