Investigative journalist Robert Parry sees the Bush administration moving the United States toward becoming a permanent "counter-terrorist" state, using torture, cross-border death squads, and collective punishments to defeat perceived enemies in Iraq and around the world. Now, since his re-election, Bush is considering the adoption of the practices that used to suppress leftist peasant uprisings in Central America in the 1980s when insurgencies in El Salvador and Guatemala were crushed through the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians, according to Parry.