sfgate.com — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.
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zombies187Sep 22, 2007
uhhhh...yeah.
Closed AccountSep 23, 2007
'Blackwater' makes my body shiver. We are going to get royally f**ked once Martial Law is declared. Oh wait, we already are getting f**ked. Everyone seems to like it, though. I dont know why.
edgarveronaSep 23, 2007
Damn... does this remind anyone here of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory?Sometimes I wonder if our entertainment was created as a way to mock our real life oppression in an ironically appropriate manner.
joeschoeSep 23, 2007
I'd love privatization if we actually had it. These abuses of power that you declare govt. should have more control of, actually are the abuses of govt. in collusion with their private creations. Not quite the same thing is it? We have laws against criminal actions, but govt. doesn't enforce them because they work with the companies that actually get-away with the crimes, they are protected by govt. and you decry privatization.... I wish you one day see it and held accountable by YOUR govt.
Closed AccountSep 24, 2007
Watch Blackwater drive around Iraq shooting at unarmed civilians with machine guns for sport, causing death & destruction to unarmed Iraqi civilians. This is your tax dollars at work.Link to video: <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZX1odzHdAo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZX1odzHdAo</a> (2:40 min)If you'd like to learn more about this contractor see <a class="user" href="http://www.wtprn.com/Blackwater.html">http://www.wtprn.com/Blackwater.html</a> Even more info: PBS - Bill Moyers, Video 9:49 minThe Secret Government - The Constitution in Crisis: <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzr6OPN46io">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzr6OPN46io</a>This is even more proof that we (the US) has no business being in Iraq in the first place. Hired mercenaries is what they are by definition (Blackwater). And if the troops can't supply their own security then we two choices: either reinstate the draft or get the f**k out. And for the dips**ts that base our country's foreign policies on Pottery Barn's policies, go read some books & grow a brain. Lastly, who wants to spend a further trillion dollars of your hard earned tax money to stay in Iraq for however many years? This war is nothing like what we were told in advance in any respect. If the Dems only have one way to stop the war, which is to defund it, then that's what has to be done. Support the troops, by bringing them home now.
Closed AccountSep 24, 2007
I've read that our government (the US) has stopped & captured a couple of weapon shipments from Iran in recent weeks. So show us the proof! Personally I think its more invented fake intel, like Iraqi WMDs.Next, does that give us the right to bomb Iran back into the stone age? I don't think so. Why?First because even if it were true its not enough to go to war or bomb the f*ck out of any country.Second, we do know for a fact that we, the US has provided a mountain of weapons to Iraqis to slaughter themselves & our soldiers with (directly & accidentally), so shall we bomb ourselves in the US? No.Third, we also know that the weapons are also coming from our allies such as Saudi Arabia, China, & Russia. So should we bomb them too? Of course not.Fourth, you can not trust this Republican White House about anything they claim, especially when they create another propaganda campaign to go to war.
gophergregSep 24, 2007
But they aren't blackwater. Blackwater left last year. And who did your band of mercenaries murder?