Calling Col. Kurtz, Please Report to Iraq

Oh, this is lovely:

NEWSWEEK has learned, 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.

Shorter El Salvador Option:

"We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow.
Village after village. Army after army."
Col. Kurtz, Appocolypse Now