"They are rapists, murderers, torturers, and thieves with less morals than God gave an alleycat."
Of course they are Spud. I'll bet you think they are overpaid and have it easy protecting Americans across the globe.
US: Blackwater Mercenaries Take Risks for Right Price
Here, at the 6,000-acre training ground of Blackwater U.S.A., scores of former military commandos, police officers and civilians are prepared each month to join the lucrative but often deadly work of providing security for corporations and governments in the toughest corners of the globe.
"This is basically a new phenomenon: corporatized private military services doing the front-line work soldiers used to do," said Peter W. Singer, a national security fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington who has written a book on the industry, "Corporate Warriors" (Cornell University Press, 2003).
www.corpwatch.org
Wow AU, you think a few thieves at Blackwater represent the entire company and we should no longer use their services? Of course that is a drop in the bucket compared to what the military loses every year.
The Pentagon has failed to track an estimated 87,000 weapons given to Afghan security forces, one-third of the 242,000 shipped by the US government between December 2004 and June 2008, the Government Accountability Office
The report mirrored GAO findings in August 2007 that the Pentagon had lost track of nearly 200,000 weapons given to security forces in Iraq.
Having toured Afghanistan last August, GAO inspectors wrote: "Lapses in accountability occurred throughout the supply chain.
"This was primarily due to a lack of clear direction from Defense and staffing shortages."
www.commondreams.org
