Meet the New Boss...

From Needlenose. If anyone has even the slightest belief that the Bush administration cares one whit about Iraqi citizens, this New York Times article will quickly dispell the notion. Short version: The "Salvador" option is alive and well in the form of Special Forces commando squads of Iraqi thugs. Additionally, the leader of the squadron has taken a further step, with the frightening--in the Orwellian sense--concept of a television show called "Terrorism in the Grip of Justice," which is little more than a genuine recreation of the public confessions of Orwell's novel--or the show trials popular in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. Suspects, many clearly having had several rounds of "intensive interrogation," confess to just about anything. All that's missing is the public execution afterwards.