Cheney: I Recommend Democracy With A Side Order Of Death Squad

A quote from a Z Magazine book review:  

With the U.S. occupation grinding into a quagmire in 2004, Vice President Richard Cheney called for the “Salvador option” in a nationally televised debate...

This remined me of the fact that there was a discussion within this administration about the use of "death squads" to keep the enemies of democaracy at bay, just as we supported such death squads in El Salvador. If I remember correctly, it was one of these squads that killed Archbishop Romero.

When Bremmer disbanded the army and the old police, there was nothing left to keep order. This is when the decision not to disarm the militias was made. This was a policy decision and there must have been discussions about it. Cheney's remark above was one instance when the discussions came to the light of day.  

To the Vice President of the most powerful country in recorded history, an acceptable instrument of policy was a DEATH SQUAD! And he reasoned about them as if they were pawns on a chess board. In short, our administration made a conscious and deliberate decision to allow the militias to remain armed in order to use them to maintain order AND to possibly play a role of death squads against the insurgents.

Now we are seeing the results of this insanity. Hammorabi estimates 100 people killed per day. This would seem to support the high kill figures of the Lancet study. There is something seriously wrong.

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