Howard Kurtz blows open Miller Watch with a devastating piece in today's Post. Go read it.
In response to yesterday's killing of six British MPs, Donald Rumsfeld said:
Just as they were unable to stop the coalition advance in Baghdad, the death squads will not stop our commitment to create stability and security in postwar Iraq.
Rummy likes using the term "death squads." But the British were killed by angry townspeople who "fetched weapons from their homes, converged on the police station and attacked British soldiers."
posted by dackIn the past, the term "death squads" has usually referred to paramilitary factions (often made up of off-duty soldiers from the official military), usually in Latin American countries, who went around killing, kidnapping and torturing innocent civilians to scare the general population out of supporting anti-government insurgent groups in the country.
To equate them with "Iraqis who shoot at and sometimes kill American soldiers" is really pretty insulting to victims of real death squads. Although now that two U.S. soldiers have allegedly been kidnapped by attacking Iraqis... Why do the words "hostage crisis" keep popping up in my head?
Posted by: Jake on June 27, 2003 10:07 AM