'Salvador option' for Iraq?

db: There is no shortage of claims - particularly on the web - that the UK and US are running a 'Salvador' style operation in Iraq. The British Army's behavior in Basra has fed these claims - which are not as wild as one might think given the ignoble history of other US/UK interventions. In February of this year we posted an item on db - not from a patently anti-war or anti-US website - but from the BBC's 'Our own correspondent' - we added some photographs from John Hoagland. We gave it a new title [due to the influence in Iraq of the former US ambassador to Honduras who later became their man in Baghdad June 23, 2004]. It's worth a read.

'Salvador option' for Iraq Mr Negroponte?