BLOODY IRAQ : ` MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’

The evidence continues to mount .... Those death squads are OUR death squads. ....... ITEM : From the Wall Street Journal editorial page , " The Kurds and the Iraqi National Congress have excellent intelligence operations that we should allow them to exploit , especially to conduct counter- insurgency in the Sunni Triangle......... ITEM : Gary Schmitt (executive director of PNAC) wrote a paper calling for a counter- insurgency effort modeled in the so-called COORDS programme , an umbrella effort that included the Phoenix assassinations. ( Source : "Phoenix Rises, The American Prospect, Robert Dreyfuss ) ........ ITEM : General (Peter) Pace : " ...White Phosphorous is a legitimate tool of the military.....It is not a chemical weapon , it is an incendiary and it is within the law of war to use those weapons as they are being used for marketing and for screening...." ( Source : Rumsfeld-Pace Pentagon briefing ,11/29/05 ) ........ ITEM : From a top Bush advisor : " The Sunni population is paying no price for the support it is giving terrorists. From their point of view , it is cost free . We have to change that equation. " (Source : "The Salvador Option" , Newsweek , 1/08/05 )..... ......ITEM : " British and US officials act as advisors to Iraq’s security force . Foreign troops support Iraqi’s policing function. What is extraordinary is that despite the increasingly widespread evidence of torture , governments have remained silent ( Source : " Revealed : Grim View of New Iraqi Torture Camps , The London Observer ) ...... ITEM : "British defence minister John Reid said he intends to scrap the 25,000 strong police force in Southern Iraq and "replace it with a new military-style unit capable of maintaining law and order..." ( Source : What was the British SAS doing in in Basra ? , World Socialist Website ) ....