Free Iraq

(1) - "The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq. "
"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. 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.)
Following that model, one Pentagon proposal would send Special Forces teams to advise, support and possibly train Iraqi squads, most likely hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen (my italics), to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathizers, even across the border into Syria, according to military insiders familiar with the discussions. It remains unclear, however, whether this would be a policy of assassination or so-called "snatch" operations, in which the targets are sent to secret facilities for interrogation. The current thinking is that while U.S. Special Forces would lead operations in, say, Syria, activities inside Iraq itself would be carried out by Iraqi paramilitaries, officials tell Newsweek."

(2) - "But it is already clear that on the day of the vote, and probably for a number of days before, Iraqis will be allowed to drive only in their own residential districts. Travel from one side of town to another and from one province to another will be strictly prohibited. Journalists will have to apply for several different identity cards to travel freely and approach the polling booths."
"Without authorisation you cannot move," he said.

They can not get it through their thick heads that they have lost the war in Iraq, as well as the support of most of the Iraqi people.

Their face-saving tactics are stale and obvious.

(3) - "The United States military said it dropped a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house outside the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, killing five people. The man who owned the house said the bomb killed 14 people, and an Associated Press photographer said seven of them were children.
The strike in the town of Aitha, 30 miles south of Mosul, came hours before a senior U.S. Embassy official in Iraq met with leaders of the Sunni Arab community to apply political pressure against their threat to boycott Jan. 30 elections. The Arab satellite broadcaster al-Jazeera said the Sunnis asked the Americans to announce a timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal".

Their harvest will be bitter and bloody.

(1) - The Salvador Option January 8, 2005
(2) - Allawi to lock down Iraq on election day January 7, 2005
(3) - U.S. Says Errant Strike Kills 5 in Iraq January 8, 2005

Democratize , or else !!