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- Verchiel77, on 10/15/2007, -0/+43Should make for great witnesses agaist the Blackwater boys in the wrongful death suit bearing down on them.
http://digg.com/world_news/Iraq_Families_Sue_Black ...
Can't wait to see Erik Prince's lawyers try to attack the credibility of our own armed forces personnel. - hawkspur, on 10/14/2007, -2/+36I don't understand why ANYONE could even possibly try to defend Blackwater anymore. Disarming and pulling guns on United States soldiers? Rampantly killing innocent human beings with no provocation? It's sickening.
- wisam, on 10/13/2007, -2/+31You must love Lt. Col. Mike Tarsa's words. The Iraqis whom were murdered were "engaged" and the outrageous Backwater behavior is "excessive shooting".
Wake me up when things are named appropriately. - inactive, on 10/13/2007, -1/+30the acts of blackwater are truly ***** sickening to read about, make no mistake about it, what we are reading about doesn't even scratch the surface of what they are doing, and its nothing short of war crimes.
- eatsushi, on 10/14/2007, -1/+25Blackwater = SS Troops
- omgTHEPATRIOTS, on 10/13/2007, -1/+24Let's put these guys on trial for treason and war crimes. It's truly sickening to the core of my heart that this is going on in America's name.
- iching, on 10/13/2007, -2/+22There were 17 negative patient care outcome (death) which had resulted from the contractor mistakenly servicing the target (killing )and from collateral damage (more killing and destruction ) Is that better?
Newspeak - d1a1s1, on 10/13/2007, -1/+15Yes, totally incomprehensible. What really gets me though is that the article says dignitaries and people of high stature use blackwater instead of our own US Military...what kind of slap in the face is that! I cant take this ***** anymore....wake me up when its over!
- Authustian, on 10/13/2007, -0/+14"There is no crime."
Legally, you are correct, morally and ethically.... oh wait, the people profiting off this war, the same ones that are running it, don't believe in ethics or morals, just money, of which they are making (literally) tons. - MacEnvy, on 10/14/2007, -0/+13No, in Iraq Blackwater ***** YOU. And as far as tax dollars go, in the the US, Blackwater ***** YOU.
- raisputin3, on 10/13/2007, -2/+15I think Blackwater in Iraq is just a trial for what will happen here if we don't reign in our government. How long do you think it will be before we have blackwater patrolling American cities?
We need these guys shut down. They need to be tried for murder. are they not technically illegal combatants in the terms of international Law?
"Civilians who directly engage in hostilities, are considered unlawful combatants or unprivileged combatants/belligerents (the treaties of humanitarian law do not expressly contain these terms). They may be prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state for such action.[1] Once a combatant is found by a competent tribunal to be an unlawful combatant, he or she no longer has the rights and privileges accorded to a prisoner of war (POW), but he retains all the rights any other civilian would have under municipal and international law in the same situation.[2]
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The phrase "unlawful combatant" does not appear in the Third Geneva Convention (GCIII).[1] However, Article 4 of GCIII does describe categories under which a person may be entitled to POW status; and there are other international treaties which deny lawful combatant status for mercenaries and children."
Blackwater employees are NOT representatives of the U.S. Military and are Mercenaries, thus they are unlawful combatants. I hope that the resistance in Iraq starts capturing these guys, trying them, and hanging them in public.
If on the other hand, they are NOT unlawful combatants in the Eyes of the USA, then neither are Hamas, Hizb'allah, and the Palestinian resistance groups. - Observant1, on 10/13/2007, -0/+12they do horrendous things to people over there then hightail it back to the green zone leaving enlistee's to catch all the hatred and bullets. they pulled guns on enlistees, they refused to leave when told to. they are open game! the best thing that could happen now is the US and Iraqi's together, declaring war on blackwater, and end blackwater the hard way immediatly.
blackwater now deserves whatever it gets and I hope its served cold, over there and here at home both. their offices should be stormed and all the exec's hauled off and tried for war crimes, same for all their nazi trainers. look what they did in New Orleans too! screw these guys and shoot the horse they came in on too. bastards! - Caffeinate, on 10/13/2007, -0/+11The only reason any of this is coming to light is that they finally got busted so completely that they couldn't lie their way out of it, explain it away or cover it up. It's damned hard to explain how their lives were endangered by cars driving *away* from the scene with bullet holes through the back glass and blood on the undamaged windshield. Blackwater reminds me of the entire Bush Administration - subvert, minimize and deny the truth unless you get caught red-handed. When you get caught red-handed, hire lawyers, get the laws changed and act like you did nothing wrong, despite the fact that you are guilty as sin. Horrific, sad, and stunning how ashamed this makes me feel to be an American. The fact that these are private contractors, many of them from other countries and trained in foreign armies doesn't make me feel any better, because though our own soldiers are disgusted by this behavior, the people at the top (read: Bush Administration and their lackeys) endorse this type of attitude and behavior.
It makes me sorry I came on Digg today and read the latest awful crime that has been committed in the name of my country by people that do not have my country's best interests at heart. - inactive, on 10/13/2007, -1/+12Yes, ***** them right in the eye!
- wisam, on 10/13/2007, -1/+12Don't get your hopes to high. The Iraqi government couldn't ban the damn company more than one day. The US government didn't move a finger. They didn't suspend its contract until pending investigations come to conclusions. Nobody knows to whom and to what laws are these group of mercenaries held accountable.
Not even the idiot Bush and his Secretary of Defense back then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvvPzVdP-DM - HanSolo69, on 10/13/2007, -1/+11Joining the army wasn't a deathwish enough? now this guy's gonna go and speak out against Blackwater? Better go ahead and kiss his loved ones goodbye before he gets shot in the back.
- mushoo, on 10/13/2007, -0/+10If they're not part of or under U.S. law then they're are terrorists. Under the same guise which the U.S. uses to indefinitely detain "enemy combatants" these ***** should be detained anywhere they go, as that is what the U.S. does around the world.
- jmpeagle, on 10/13/2007, -1/+10why not do something now if you feel it is NWO. If it truly is NWO then no election should matter and won't change a thing.
- peterzuni, on 10/14/2007, -4/+13welcome to the NWO - america is f*ed unless we do something about it in '08
- hiphoc, on 10/13/2007, -0/+8This reminds me of when I was playing Contra or another shooter game. Got scared ***** so I just ran and shot anything and moved, and ran over anything that didn't. Blackwater, ***** cowards who kill people.... FOR MONEY!!
- ccp6453, on 10/14/2007, -5/+13There is no crime.
Those guys are mercenaries, and are not subject-able to any form of law.
It says a lot about the cause for a war when one needs to hire mercenaries, doesn't it? sigh .. - cranium, on 10/13/2007, -2/+10Actually, it's probably our responsibility to screw their wives while they're over there doing evil just to make the karma work out.
- TwwIX, on 10/14/2007, -1/+8This whole war is a war crime.
- cranium, on 10/13/2007, -1/+8Ya know, if somebody offs Erik Prince I'm buying a round at the nearest pub.
- rarson, on 10/13/2007, -0/+7Technically, they've already patrolled American cities. Remember, they walked around after Katrina, armed, taking people's guns away.
- SOULEVENT, on 10/13/2007, -1/+8Do you realize that with NO true oversight...they could have a few thousand american soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of others, without records, just waiting for the call, who will be there when the time is right.
Hey, once they decide to patrol in helmets etc etc you wont know if its an American who is a Blackwater merc or not. Makes it alot easier to inflict pain and suffering behind a ***** mask.
Yes, I know this thread is about BW shooting people in Iraq...wait till they come home...oh wait they are already here...and like a good boy, Georgie put our soldiers all the way over there, ***** em every step of the way, yet Blackwater is hooked the ***** up? Is he TRYING to get as many of our soldiers maimed, crippled or killed as possible? What if, while all our soldiers are over there, someone decides to Drop something really ***** up on everyone? That would be one of those, ***** you, martial law scenarios from our Fuhrer, then good ole BW can be patrolling the streets of US...Ahhh ***** that *****.
See what believing in lies has led US All to? The United States of Homeland Surveillance - leorcastillo, on 10/13/2007, -0/+6I find it interesting that the article characterizes the U.S. Military as wanting to distance itself from Blackwater U.S.A. As if worse atrocities like this haven't been committed in the past 4 years. Oh what, because bombs were dropped from 50,000 feet up and they couldn't see their victims it's less of a War Crime? AND CONDOLENCE PAYMENTS, WTF???? F*CK Bush.
- dzagama, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6If anything, Blackwaters ops should kiss the feet of any American soldiers.
- Markers, on 10/15/2007, -1/+7It's only a matter of time before there is a fire-fight between our US Military and Blackwater...
- wakananda, on 10/14/2007, -0/+6How about Blackwater psychos = contents of dicarded post-hanging SS-issue boxers + garbage-seeking opossum with vaginal itching?
Seriously, we have to put these ***** in a sack and drown them, or they will ultimately turn on us and destroy us. And I do not exaggerate. We've seen armies like this before, but never an American infection. Put them down. - shdspart, on 10/13/2007, -0/+6Remeber these are the same mercenaries that responded after Katrina and were disarming Americans in new orleans
- celeb, on 10/14/2007, -0/+6Ironically enough one of the pre-requisites for a job with Blackwater is "No history of major illness or mental disorder."
Go figure
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/employment/contract.a ... - rmxz, on 10/13/2007, -0/+6Perhaps if the army disarmed Blackwater then people wouldn't mind if they stayed there.
- drb789, on 10/13/2007, -0/+5Are the US forces so ineffective they have to use thugs like this to do their job?
- WhereAmI, on 10/13/2007, -2/+7Otherwise the terrorists will win.
Go away troll. - kevinmoore, on 06/13/2009, -1/+6While taking a dump in the other.
- Tzimiskes, on 10/14/2007, -0/+5This comment is offensive to the SS.
- Markers, on 10/13/2007, -0/+5I'm going to hold you to that offer.
- jmpeagle, on 10/13/2007, -1/+6that's not doing anything. That is participating in the same system that you are railing against. The people running the system are irrelevant if the system is broken. If you believe in NWO then you know who has control of the presidency or congress is irrelevant. Only an armed revolution can change things and somehow I doubt you are up for that.
- Markers, on 10/14/2007, -0/+5Or a bullet.
- inactive, on 10/13/2007, -6/+10i wonder is that army witness commits "suicide" right before the washington post does a follow-up.
- inf0, on 10/13/2007, -0/+4Wrong. They were disarming everyone.
Anyone with half a brain should be protesting the use of mercs @ home and abroad.
Think of how this makes the US look to the rest of the world. Pretty damn incompetent. - Markers, on 10/13/2007, -0/+4I was thinking the same thing.
- Alex2, on 10/15/2007, -1/+5They'll just get a lawyer to explain it's not 'war crimes' because they're technically not soldiers.
- awaiting the upcoming video where Cheney gets a crowd pumped up by chanting "Contractors! Contractors! Contractors!" - Plinkotic, on 10/23/2007, -0/+4Almost as good as Carlin's 'It's getting so bad I'm expecting to hear any day now about a rape victim referred to as an 'Unwilling Sperm Recipient'!"
Iraq. They are totally Servicing that Customer.
/new george material pls, i needs it to thrive - DteK, on 10/13/2007, -1/+4just call me Jody!!
- raisputin3, on 10/13/2007, -0/+3True that....
- nakani, on 10/13/2007, -0/+3This is what happens when a fascist administration is in control. They instigated an ill-planned war which lead to many opportunities for personal profit via no-contract bids. There was a troop shortage, so they supplemented our presence with mercenaries and other private contractors and services.
- hellotyler, on 10/13/2007, -0/+3Blackwater... I wonder who sent them over there again..... Death squads for USA, rah rah rah!
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