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The article states El Salvadorian paramilitary troops. U.S. money and weapons supported the death squads, not our troops. Not to say American's are immune to doing bad things. People who are put in the situation of accepting killing as their job become easily morally corrupted, such is the nature of war. We destroyed villages of people in vietnam, so I don't see how any troops would be hard to imagine doing wrong. Just some food for thought, us American's aren't the chosen people. Not even "the chosen people" are the chosen people. But our government knew exactly who it was backing up. Our government has an ugly history of corrupting central and south America. Read about operation condor. Big Business counts in cash, not body bags. The fear of communism helped United Fruit (turned chiquita) to fight to monopolize other peoples/countries land. Just some history that is as factual as slavery being a right for big plantations. Why is now a special time where corruption goes away? hmm.