Billmon zitiert einiges dazu: 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. . . . One military source involved in the Pentagon debate . . . suggests that new offensive operations are needed that would create a fear of aiding the insurgency. "The Sunni population is paying no price for the support it is giving to the terrorists," he said. "From their point of view, it is cost-free. We have to change that equation."

Das ist die "Salvador option" (lauter amerikanische Quellen - übersetzung bei Nachfrage)

Also: US-Militärs stellen fest, daß die Todesschwadronen in El Salvador erfolgreich waren. Das braucht man jetzt auch im Irak.

Die Erfahrung mit der gegenwärtigen Irak-"Regierung" legt nach seinen Beobachtungen nahe, daß diese Option bereits in Kraft ist.