time to leave then?


"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows. The Iraq war is largely about oil."

Said Alan Greenspan somewhere in the 21st century

Who's betting that Bush will someday promise to withdraw our troops and do so, but immediately get a majority of them to sign back on to Blackwater at increased pay?

I can just see the new corporate motto on the cover of their annual report:

"We are preferable to sectarian death squads."

FF BAD/BAD 4 Sully!

"We are preferable to sectarian death squads."

But we do love to see mooselambs fight among themselves.

Maliki has been given his marching orders from Condi.

Ain't having an empire fun?

Why do we have mercenaries in Iraq anyway?

Oh wait. Never mind.

Money.


Ain't having an empire fun?


Do we have an empire yet? I thought that, if we had an empire, we'd at least be raping the countryside for its resources. Where's my .50/gallon gas?

"Where's my .50/gallon gas?"

Posted by Axiom

Been sold out for a time.
Nobody paid attention in '73, why now?

Travel by sail has gained more room.

"
LULULULULULU."


Last time I did that a woman said ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod
ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod
ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod
ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod

This incident reinforces the meaning of puppet government.

Iraq stands or falls based on a private security firm ?

Iraq is just the training ground. If, and when, they come back to our soil, things will be much different. Prepare to be assimilated.

Do we have an empire yet? I thought that, if we had an empire, we'd at least be raping the countryside for its resources. Where's my .50/gallon gas?

Posted by Axiom



you're not the one who is supposed to benefit. harsh reality aint it?

peasonovanti

What kind of military reject mercenary goes to work for Blackwater in the first place?

"What kind of military reject mercenary goes to work for Blackwater in the first place?"

Dale Gribble?

Shashahsaaa!

security vacuum? Does that imply there is security In Iraq right now?

It's interesting to note how Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared the incidents as a threat to Iraqi sovereignty but in the United States when cops or security use excessive force it's deemed as a crime.

I assume this firm has been in Iraq for a long time before the incidents occurred. They should set-up something for problems like this one. If a firm is caught using excessive force which is a crime, they should be punished under Iraqi law.

Iraqi numbers for security is still down, more than likely why they agreed to allow the firm to continue. The Iraqis need to take back their country as they have started to do this summer, so the troops can come home. I don't want to see the troops leave and then have to go back again because the pullout didn't work.

There are more US and foreign civilians in Iraq than military personnel. That's something that will escape the pro-surge crowd, I guess. It's the civilian army which is actually providing the security.

What an f-ed up state of affairs. This has to be the low point of America as a nation in the eyes of the world.

Reality it trumps what you communists want. Ain't life a bitch comrades!

Reality it trumps what you communists want. Ain't life a bitch comrades!



Posted by Burt


You might want to organize your thoughts before posting comments. Many of us expect posts to contain at least one complete thought, more or less related to the discussion at hand.

Midi patronizes, "Many of us expect posts to contain at least one complete thought, more or less related to the discussion at hand."

Us? You speaking for the mice?

Of course, you'll only mention incomplete thoughts and sentences when it is a Rightist/Republican you are addressing; while any Leftist/Democratic lack along similar lines is completely ignored ...

How very obvious can you get?

Bitch, bitch, bitch. -Harry Callahan

Anybody else gettin a real uneasy feeling about this whole situation? i mean not in a tinfoil hat conspiracy nut kinda way but in OMFG this shit could be real kinda way?

What kind of military reject mercenary goes to work for Blackwater in the first place?

Posted by moder8 at 2007-09-24 12:44 AM | Reply | F


Lots of people; better pay, better benefits, no accountability, and way more flexibility. I can't speak for Blackwater but KBR openly recruited from my unit when I was deployed.

Midi patronizes, "Many of us expect posts to contain at least one complete thought, more or less related to the discussion at hand."

Us? You speaking for the mice?


Gee what a surprise - you failed to get my point, although you did quickly recognize the blather as belonging to one of your own ilk.

No, tadpole, I generally appreciate coherence in ALL the posts I read, both from the right and the left. There are many righties here who make good points, using logical argument and facts.

And then there are the foaming-at-the-mouth, blathering loons (no offense).

Not only should we not be employing Blackwater's mercenaries, it should be illegal to even create a mercenary force in the US. First we spend millions training special ops troops then Blackwater and other companies take advantage of that training expense, hire them away and then lease them back to us. Second reason is that only within the uniformed armed forces can we apply the discipline necessary to be sure these types of forces are only used under the elected civillian leadership of the US.

"mercenaries"

Such a harsh word. Civilian contractors. Keep in mind that the vast majority of these civilian contractors are not button men, but dishwashers, cooks, truck drivers, etc. The military has been moving away from deploying uniformed personnel and replacing them with civilian contractors. This includes ops and maintenance positions at most US military bases worldwide.

"only within the uniformed armed forces can we apply the discipline necessary to be sure these types of forces are only used under the elected civillian leadership of the US"

Yeah, like at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.