Jim Devine wrote:
The U.S. elite may be encouraging death squads in Iraq, either directly or indirectly, but if so, it's a self-destructive policy, since it encourages civil war.
I happen to know personally one of the Iraq correspondents for a major metropolitan daily, who generally reflects official thinking. This reporter is quite alarmed and depressed by these death squads, so I think it's a fair bet that the US embassy concurs. Doug
