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March 12, 2007
The Real Salvador Option
Why is this website so universally admired? Because we have the courage to make the connections no one else will.
Newsweek, January, 2005:
'The Salvador Option'
The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq
Los Angeles Times, today:
American military planners have begun plotting a fallback strategy for Iraq that includes a gradual withdrawal of forces and a renewed emphasis on training Iraqi fighters in case the current troop buildup fails or is derailed by Congress.Such a strategy, based in part on the U.S. experience in El Salvador in the 1980s, is still in the early planning stages and would be adjusted to fit the outcome of the current surge in troop levels...
And now, this:
Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador, after he did his bit for diplomatic relations by being found by police drunk, nearly naked, bound, gagged and wearing a number of sex toys and bondage items.
What is the ultimate goal of the United States in Iraq? Forget the oil. Forget the permanent bases. All this time they've been driving toward one end: to deluge Iraq with naked, drunk Israeli ambassadors wearing bondage gear.
This is the real "Salvador option." They've done it before, they'll do it again.
Posted at March 12, 2007 01:33 PM | TrackBackThis leads one to wonder what the real meaning of "surge" is.
Ewwww....
Posted by: Aaron Datesman at March 12, 2007 02:11 PMI'll say it again:
Bondage diplomacy beats gunboat diplomacy anytime.
Or, man your gear, diplomats, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Posted by: donescobar at March 12, 2007 03:41 PMMust be one hell of a night at Carnival time in El Salvador.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at March 12, 2007 04:05 PMSo, does this mean I should be pouring buckets of blood on the doors of adult bookstores now? Or should we prep our Iraqi brothers and sisters with booklets on how to say, "Oy vey! No double anal for me, Mistress Cruel!" in spanish?
International relations are so confusing this day and age.
Posted by: Kallisti at March 12, 2007 05:39 PMSo, does this mean I should be pouring buckets of blood on the doors of adult bookstores now? Or should we prep our Iraqi brothers and sisters with booklets on how to say, "Oy vey! No double anal for me, Mistress Cruel!" in spanish?
International relations are so confusing this day and age.
Posted by: Kallisti at March 12, 2007 05:40 PM
