A glimpse of the future of Iraq
If the plans for death squads Rumsfeld wants to introduce there are followed through:
The Ustase offered an amnesty if they would convert to Roman Catholicism. A majority of peasants agreed and returned to their villages. the mass conversion was organized and the peasants duly arrived at the Serbian Orthodox church in Glina. 250 people turned up for the event. They were greeted by six members of the Ustase. When all were inside, the church doors were locked shuit. The peasants were forced to lie on the ground and the six Ustase began hitting them with spiked clubs. More Ustase appeared and one after another every single peasant was murdered in this fashion
Quote taken from The Balkans 1804-1999: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, Misha Glenny 1999, ISBN 1-86207-073-3, page 500.
Having death squads is immoral enough in its own right, but in a multi-ethnic society like Iraq, where even though we speak of the Kurdish north or the Sunni Triangle, people of all ethnicities and creeds live side by side, introducing them will sooner or later lead to ethnic cleansing and genocide. Especially the Kurds are
already seen as the US stooges; if there start to be or turn out to be Kurdish death squads operating in Iraq, there will be retribution, which as always will fall on
the innocent and the most defenceless.