Murder Squad in Iraq?

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Murder Squad in Iraq?

By David Asman
Fox News

Newsweek magazine ran a bizarre story this week, in which it claimed that U.S. Special Forces were training Iraqi commandos to be murderers.

The article, posted on the Internet as a “Web exclusive,” opened with a gruesome 1980 photograph of the exhumed graves of U.S. nuns murdered in El Salvador, over which a headline blared: “’The Salvador Option’; The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq.”

The clear implication was that U.S. Special Forces units trained Salvadorans to murder innocents in the 1980s and that now our Special Forces are training murder squads in Iraq. This is not only wrong, it’s the exact opposite of what happened. Our Special Forces were sent to El Salvador in the 1980s to stop random killings, which were out of control on both sides of the conflict.

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<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">&quot;What everyone agrees is that we can’t just go on as we are,&quot; one senior military officer told NEWSWEEK. &quot;We have to find a way to take the offensive against the insurgents. Right now, we are playing defense. And we are losing.&quot;
--<span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>Newsweek, Web Exclusive Jan. 12, 2005</span>

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I for one applaud this decision, if its true.

I believe something must be done to up the tempo and change the dynamics of the &quot;insurgency&quot; to go on offense, rather than US Forces being sitting ducks in Iraq.

The most expeditious way to destroy a snake is to crush its head.

Of course the MSM can be counted on to be a hitch in our get along.

It also seems to me there yet remain a few snakes in the grass at the Pentagon leaking secret war councils in the hope of scuttling the plans.