Stacy DeLuke, a company spokeswoman, dismissed the allegations as "baseless" and said the company would not comment on former employees. Jackson, who resigned as president early this year, said, "I don't care what you write."

Anybody wanna try sticking up fer this typa shit?

No takers?

K.

Here's the thing...

Corporate warriors with an allegiance only to the almighty buck who exist beyond all law are a really, really bad idea.

Be Well.

"Suprised? Anybody?"

I'm sure that somebody is surprised. Somewhere.

What surprises is me is that Blackwater has let Jeremy Scahill live this long.

Not me, Spud.

This doesn't suprise me one bit though.

"Surprised? Anybody?"

Those were my exact first thoughts. This is what I expect from the modern day mercenaries known as Xe/Blackwater. They are a disgrace.

I guess you all know this to be a true fact. I know that none of you would jump to any conclusions.

"They are a disgrace."

They are a necessary evil. Without Mercenary companies like them (whom we pay upt to four or five times what the average serviceman gets), we'd have to re-institute the draft.

#6
And by this I mean to say that lack of support for a war is not sufficient for us not to have them.

We need the draft again. No deferments either. Rich and poor should die side by side.

#8

I argue the same for different reasons. If we all were invested in the sacrifice, I think we as a nation would be far more vocal in our opposition. If every president who wanted to start a war had to deal with Vietnam style protests, I'd hope that there'd be far fewer wars.

I guess, in part at least, this is an indictment of the left.

The good news is Obama is going to end the use of the Blackwater's of this world, right?
Well as soon as he's done giving no bid contracts to the Halliburton's/KBR's of this world, right?

What do you mean "no"? WTF, I thought he was different!

"The good news is Obama is going to end the use of the Blackwater's of this world, right?"

Sadly that is something that he never said. In fact, quite the opposite. Amy Goodman asked him personally during the primaries if I remember correctly. He sort of laughed her question off as absurd.

We need the draft again. No deferments either. Rich and poor should die side by side.

#8 | Posted by jackass

Hmmm, I wonder how many people would 'choose' to be gay then. The draft would definitely would push people to doing things they don't want to do!

Anybody wanna try sticking up fer this typa shit?

When in Rome, do as the Romans....

The draft would definitely would push people to doing things they don't want to do!
#12 | Posted by greeneyedguy

Currently you don't have to prove you're gay, you just have to make the claim (imagine if you did have to prove it!). But that's bad enough for some people I guess.

The Iraqis had the right idea what to do with these Blackwater mercs in Fallujah.

I don't think the draft is a good idea. I don't want a lot of the pie in the sky morons that I attend college with to fuck everything up under pressure.

Seriously though people who don't want to be there will do a worse job then people who volunteer.

A volunteer army during a recession is a jobs program for unemployed young people where they risk death for a pay check. The draft puts the children of the rich and powerful at the same risk as the poor and powerless and thus would serve to keep us out of unnecessary wars like Iraq.

Who would volunteer for the Army for 3 years and get shit pay when you can sign for one year and at least triple the paycheck at some Private Contracting firm?

Who would volunteer for the Army for 3 years and get shit pay when you can sign for one year and at least triple the paycheck at some Private Contracting firm?

God, I love the free market. Look at the efficiencies it's brought us!

Seriously though people who don't want to be there will do a worse job then people who volunteer.
#16 | Posted by andyuhenet

You mean we can do worse than we've been doing?

How sad is that?

Seriously though people who don't want to be there will do a worse job then people who volunteer.

WW2 ring any bells?

Hag-I think it was a Dem who suggested a draft before the Iraq war rather than people doing 3-4 tours. Seems to me the fighty rightys were opposed.

"Hag-I think it was a Dem who suggested a draft before the Iraq war rather than people doing 3-4 tours. Seems to me the fighty rightys were opposed."

Yeah, Rangel, that slimy SOB. Great politics for his district though. I think he definitely had a point though.

A volunteer army during a recession is a jobs program for unemployed young people where they risk death for a pay check. The draft puts the children of the rich and powerful at the same risk as the poor and powerless and thus would serve to keep us out of unnecessary wars like Iraq.

#17 | Posted by danni at 2009-11-11 12:06 PM

Pretty much how I see it. I've said for along time that the gov't can and will do what it pleases with a volunteer military. They'll start pointless wars based on fabrications, and nobody will stop them because the troops are all there volunarily. The attitude is that it's their own damn fault. They joined, they get what they deserve.

Try doing that with a military stocked by drafted troops and see what happens. If you're going to steal children, then you'd better be prepared to treat them well.

Oh, and, these Blackwater scumbags? They earned a waterboarding or two. Just for the hell of it. What a disgrace.

Why all the fuss? They didn't do anything the Bushies wouldn't do.

Why all the fuss? They didn't do anything the Bushies wouldn't do.

#24 | Posted by spectator at 2009-11-11 01:38 PM

They ARE the Bushies...

Currently you don't have to prove you're gay, you just have to make the claim (imagine if you did have to prove it!).

#14 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine

I wonder how Cheney and Limbaugh would have handled that?

I wonder how Cheney and Limbaugh would have handled that?

#26 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2009-11-11 02:32 PM | Reply

That's odd, because I wonder how Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ann Hathaway would have handled it.
Different strokes for different folks I guess. Literally.

"That's odd, because I wonder how Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ann Hathaway would have handled it."

Thanks for the mental image.

Its a good day.

I wonder how Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ann Hathaway would have handled it.

#27 | Posted by 101Chairborne

With Grace (if she were available), I'm sure.

With all the crimes of Blackwater, KB&R, Halliburton, and virtually every defense industry that receives federal money, the only group the wingnuts are outraged against is ACORN, which committed no crime. The only allegation is that several local members, confronted with a phony pimp and prostitute with a hidden camera, gave them advice, whether serious or mockingly, on how to handle their taxes to hide their professions.

And, even then, the phonies lied, claiming that every office they went into (they claimed five) went along with their scheme to create the impression that this was systematic in ACORN.

We know from the records that a local ACORN office in Philadelphia not only kicked their asses out the door, but immediately filed a formal complaint with the Philadelphia Police Department. So, we don't know if they visited 6 or 600 local offices before getting the reactions they wanted to get from local volunteers.

To this day, they have never demonstrated any systematic, organization-level fraud or crime involving federal funds with ACORN.

Yet, here are Blackwater, Bechtel, KB&R, Halliburton, Boeing, Lockeed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, L-3,and hundreds of other massive war-profiteer contractors ripping off the government for billions of dollars, and the wingnuts can only get a hard-on for going after ACORN.

One wonders if the entire GOP went off their meds at the same time! They've turned their entire party into one giant acorn academy.

With all the crimes of Blackwater, KB&R, Halliburton, and virtually every defense industry that receives federal money, the only group the wingnuts are outraged against is ACORN ...

#30 | Posted by BlueSun at 2009-11-11 03:47 PM

...and the ACLU.

With all the crimes of Blackwater, KB&R, Halliburton, and virtually every defense industry that receives federal money, the only group the leftwingnuts are outraged against is FOX News ...

#30 | Posted by BlueSun at 2009-11-11 03:47 PM

There, fixed that for you.

Blackwater personell will not hesitate shoot down American citizens without remorse if the U.S. government employs them to do so...
And BLUESUN I have nothing good at all to say about ACORN, ACORN is a stinking fetus of the Dems, and is on the shitlist in my book,
it should have been squashed before it was birthed, just like all the evil Czars Obuma appointed, and the other blood-suckers on Pennsylvania Ave. that are tearing apart the U.S.A, the sooner they are trashed and deleted the better off our country will be...

The Iraqis had the right idea what to do with these Blackwater mercs in Fallujah.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2009-11-11 11:54 AM | Reply

So Snoofy approves of the killings of the mercs?

This debate is stupid. The US Military participates in the same activities. Neither is going anywhere and frankly, the world needs both. Get over it. Punish the people involved and move on.

We know from the records that a local ACORN office in Philadelphia not only kicked their asses out the door, but immediately filed a formal complaint with the Philadelphia Police Department.

Ummm. Not true. It was clearly documented that the gal at the front desk did exactly what they (da pimp!) said she did despite her going on record to the contrary.

Nice try at moral relativism though.

With all the crimes of Blackwater, KB&R, Halliburton, and virtually every defense industry that receives federal money, the only group the leftwingnuts are outraged against is FOX News ...

#30 | Posted by BlueSun at 2009-11-11 03:47 PM
There, fixed that for you.
#32 | POSTED BY 101CHAIRBORNE

With all the crimes of Blackwater, KB&R, Halliburton, and virtually every defense industry that receives federal money, the only groups the leftwingnuts are outraged against is FOX News, defense contractors, wall street, health insurance lobbiest ... you know, only the groups destroying the country for profit, and the propaganda disseminators (limbaugh, palin, beck) helping them do it.

There ya go wheelie. Found some omissions.

Spud: Anybody wanna try sticking up fer this typa shit?

Snippy: I guess you all know this to be a true fact. I know that none of you would jump to any conclusions.

Sick Willy: When in Rome, do as the Romans...

K, Spud'll rephrase that.

Any rational, sane individuals capable of logical argument wanna try sticking up fer this shiat?

Ah, didn't think so.

With all the crimes of Blackwater, KB&R, Halliburton, and virtually every defense industry that receives federal money, the only group the wingnuts are outraged against is ACORN, which committed no crime.

~Blue Sun

Sad but true that.

Don't fergit their campaign against the group of commie time travellers who went back in time in order to change Obama's birth certificate.

With all the crimes of Blackwater, KB&R, Halliburton, and virtually every defense industry that receives federal money, the only group the leftwingnuts are outraged against is FOX News ...

#30 | Posted by BlueSun at 2009-11-11 03:47 PM

There, fixed that for you.

#32 | Posted by 101Chairborne

Because Lefties AREN'T outraged by the crimes of Blackwater/Xe, KBR, Helliburton?