The Iraq police state testbed... (Be sure to note the choice of words...!)

testbed...

A testbed is a platform for experimentation for large development projects. Testbeds allow for rigorous, transparent and replicable testing of scientific theories, computational tools, and other new technologies.

iraq testbed...

[T]he Bush administration is transforming Iraq into a test tube for modern techniques of repression, which already include use of night-vision optics on drone aircraft, heat resonance imaging, and firepower that is both deadly and precise.

three choices... will it be door number one, door number two, or door number three...?

A war fighter needs to know one of three things: Do I let him go? Keep him? Or shoot him on the spot?

ya gotta love "door number three..."

Though [Pentagon weapons designer Anh] Duong is best known for designing high-explosives used to destroy hardened targets, she also supervised the Joint Expeditionary Forensics Facilities project, known as a “lab in a box” for analyzing biometric data, such as iris scans and fingerprints, that have been collected on more than one million Iraqis.

The labs – collapsible, 20-by-20-foot units each with a generator and a satellite link to a biometric data base in West Virginia – will let U.S. forces cross-check data in the field against information collected previously that can be used to identify insurgents. These labs are expected to be deployed across Iraq in early 2008.

Duong said the next step will be to shrink the lab to the size of a “backpack” so soldiers who encounter a suspect “could find out within minutes” if he’s on a terrorist watch list and should be killed.

Duong justified this biometric-data program as a humanitarian way of singling out “bad guys” for elimination while sparing innocent civilians.

so, howrya likin' it so far...? does it give you that warm, fuzzy feeling, knowing that our government is busy figuring out how to "eliminate" the bad guys...?

oops...! bad reading... sayonara, baby...!

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