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- yurbud, on 11/01/2007, -11/+389Even conservatives should be outraged at this behavior.
The chain of command should be the lowest E-1 in the regular military outranks these guys.
And if Blackwater is subject to the laws of no country, no Iraqi or American soldier should be punished if they treat them like enemy combatants. - 309east, on 11/01/2007, -12/+246Well, Blackwater is like "Hmmm, the US government pays us 100x what they pay their soldiers, that clearly means that we are way more important then measly soldiers". This would have been a great opportunity for a little "friendly fire" incident.. unfortunately the soldiers wouldn't have stood a chance, because the government cant afford to supply them with decent equipment because all the money is going to blackwater.
- ChristPissed, on 11/01/2007, -46/+265christain terrorist eric prince belongs in capitivity in gauntanamo
- Verchiel77, on 10/24/2007, -8/+217Swaggering, trigger happy, man-children.
A billion of our tax dollars at work. - notBrit, on 10/17/2007, -31/+205George W. Bush belongs in Guantanamo.
- maou, on 11/01/2007, -6/+161Support Our Troops! I keep hearing. Well look what kind of ***** my tax dollars are supporting. Sure as hell ain't the troops.
- sensoukami, on 10/24/2007, -4/+136This is what happens in the absence of accountability. Accountability MUST be made the guiding principal of how be base our societys and how we bahave as individuals. Be it unaccountable public teachers unions or unaccountable teenager thugs or unacountable Blackwater mercs or unacountable politicians. Start from there, and then build society.
- budgetguitar, on 10/24/2007, -3/+109I wish the press would start calling them what they are...Mercinaries. Not private military contractors. A guy laying sewer pipe in a neighborhood is a contractor. A overpaid adrenaline junky who thinks he's more important than the military who hires him is a MERCINARY, and an ass hat to boot!
- quaxon, on 10/24/2007, -5/+95Why the ***** hasnt anyone classified blackwater as a terrorist organization? Also it really shows how much support the government really shows the troops when they are replacing them in every corner of the military with private contracters that get paid more and have better benefits and are also immune to prosecution for any crimes committed
- swrostmore, on 10/24/2007, -7/+80Even worse, there has been at least one incident where US soldiers were taking orders from Blackwater personnel in a firefight.
- codehkr77, on 10/24/2007, -7/+76If I was a soldier and I saw someone who wasn't wearing a GI military uniform and holding a gun, I'll take them out.
- miketrin, on 10/13/2007, -3/+70Just wait till these thugs show up in your city, just as they did during katrina. Get a gun now to protect yourself from these ***** losers.
- superfusion, on 11/01/2007, -1/+68Treason ... and a side order of treason.
Again, this company has addresses and assets in the United States. Cannot a state government step in and do what Bush is obviously unwilling to do. - wakananda, on 10/19/2007, -6/+70Any criticism of any christian, no matter how extreme their actions may be, is "persecution." Similar to how any criticism of Israel is "anti-semitism," and any opposition to a policy of endless warfare is refusing to "support our troops." This ***** all comes from the same playbook.
- originaldna, on 10/24/2007, -3/+61Sweet, the praetorian guards rise again, and so the destruction of American takes one more step closer, what better way to split a notion, Hired guns for politicians pulling guns on a nation’s last line of defense. You read about empires imploding, but I never thought to my wildest dreams this is how they start.
Digg me down it you will but you know it's true. - wtfpwned98, on 10/24/2007, -3/+50"'It cannot happen here' is always wrong," the philosopher Karl Popper wrote. "A dictatorship can happen anywhere."
- CrappedCrusader, on 10/24/2007, -1/+41...per week
- Waiting2awake, on 10/13/2007, -0/+38Any idea why they weren't from the get go? Seems kinda of strange in this day and age of compliance, and lawyers, etc, etc for the accountability/legal issues would have just "slipped their mind"?
No, something else was at work there... - lattethunder, on 10/24/2007, -3/+40There's a special circle in Hell waiting for people who kill for profit. They used to be called mercenaries. And this isn't about an undersized army: Iraq is the neoconservative experiment for a completely privatized nation. Controlled global chaos equals profits for corporations. War is great business.
- KidDynamo0, on 10/24/2007, -2/+39What is happening to my country?
- wtfpwned98, on 10/24/2007, -3/+39What if our mercenaries turn on us?
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20070603_Wh ... - sensoukami, on 10/13/2007, -5/+41On the "get a gun" idea. One of the guiding principals of the NRA has always been that the private possession of firearms is the ultimate defense against a tyrannical government and the best protection of liberty. I don't necessarily agree with that per se, but there is a certain something to it. So why is it, with the obvious egregious infringement of liberties by the Republican party does the NRA still support them? What is the point of having guns to protect against government tyranny if the the gun owners just meekly go along with it? I'd like to ask some NRA types that one and see what they say...
- banq59, on 10/14/2007, -18/+52not sure why you are getting dugg down its the ***** truth
- banq59, on 11/01/2007, -5/+39Root of the problem = a war we shouldn't be fighting.
- codehkr77, on 10/14/2007, -13/+45read his comment one more time.. idiot
- inactive, on 10/13/2007, -4/+36I've said it before and I'll say it again, Blackwater is fair game in Iraq, if you see them, shoot them.
This needs to be added to the rules of engagement: Blackwater = free to engage. - Pureeviljester, on 11/01/2007, -3/+35i woulda shot them.
- scottykempf, on 10/24/2007, -1/+32I wouldn't have blamed the soldiers if they did. What soldiers takes orders from someone claiming to be Blackwater? Didn't they have a seargent or command officer to tell them what to do?
- Fullvinyl, on 10/13/2007, -1/+31We would do so presumably at the point of a Blackwater gun, if ***** like you have anything to say about it. How can you defend or excuse this?
- quaxon, on 10/24/2007, -4/+32Anyone living in North Carolina care to pay their headquarters a little visit and give them a taste of their own medicine? NC is a gun loving state aint it?
- ThePeteStanis, on 10/13/2007, -0/+27I consider myself a conservative, and I agree that this is outrageous. Blackwater is not acting in the best interests of the Iraqis and Americans. I think that the military should train some more personnel for escort and protection of U.S. diplomats so Blacwater can be expelled.
It is too bad that those troops allowed themselves to be disarmed by civilians. - wakananda, on 10/24/2007, -5/+30These are the new SS. It's history repeating.
US military ought to be taking these thugs out when they act up. Fight them over there, or you'll be fighting them over here, in your home town. - jsm2112, on 10/24/2007, -1/+22"This is my safety"--
Wasn't that a line in Black Hawk Down? Apparently they aren't original either... - bobdotcom, on 10/14/2007, -1/+22If these guys refuse to follow the rules, and draw weapons on Americans, or refuse to disarm in the Green Zone, they should be treated as any other person who refuses. Either forcibly disarmed and arrested, or shot. Its quite simple, the rules are for everyone's safety, and these guys clearly don't give a ***** about safety.
- jezsik, on 11/01/2007, -2/+23Who would you rather have guarding you, the American citizen who's sworn to uphold the constitution, or the trigger-happy, unaccountable mercenary who sells his allegiance to the highest bidder?
- AJH16, on 10/17/2007, -14/+34How is he a Christian terrorist? He is an egotistical ***** that needs to be punished, but I don't see how this has anything to do with his religion, if he is even seriously Christian.
- Amazetbm, on 10/13/2007, -0/+20Looks like they've shot themselves in the foot on this one. What they did could be considered an act of treason.
- swrostmore, on 10/13/2007, -0/+19Blackwater doesn't just hire ex US special forces - they also recruit ex-members of government death squads, including Chile, Peru, Argentina, Colombia and Guatemala, enticing ex-employees of Chile's Pinochet out of retirement. You really think its A-OK for these guys to be commanding our soldiers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_of_Death
- gopher043, on 10/16/2007, -2/+21If they wanted to lead american forces they should have re-enlisted like alot of other people did instead of going to the highest bidder cause of greed.
- inactive, on 10/13/2007, -0/+18Maybe the fact that oakley makes ballistic goggles?
http://www.specwargear.com/goggle-1.html
http://www.specwargear.com/images/Update%20Sept/go ... - InetRoadkill, on 10/13/2007, -0/+18What needs to happen is for Blackwater to be introduced to the business end of an M1-Abrams or a hellfire missile the next time they try to pull some stupid ***** like this.
- Tuto, on 10/13/2007, -4/+22Maybe nobody deserves to be in Guantanamo? Maybe the whole ***** place should be burned down?
- inactive, on 10/14/2007, -5/+23Nobody deserves to be in Guantanamo.
- toxicshok, on 10/13/2007, -3/+20Now Blackwater is responsible to American laws.
- hydrodev, on 10/13/2007, -17/+34because Christianity is the cause for ALMOST every single war ever fought, As well as witch trials, burning at the stake and many other assorted atrocities perpetrated against people displaying free thought.
Tell me im wrong, and ill tell you to learn history. - TheHydrogens, on 10/13/2007, -4/+21Buried. Rawsto--- wait... you mean that it ISN'T just liberal blogs that can spot things that are going wrong? You mean that the trolls can't just come here and pass this off as lies from "rawsewage"? Interesting.... dugg.
- SillyDigger, on 11/01/2007, -2/+19Why didn't those soldiers waste those blackwater thugs?
- RabidAngel, on 10/13/2007, -0/+17And that's not a conspiracy. It's the painfully obvious truth. We are living in the time of unprecedented war-profiteering. Disgraceful.
- RabidAngel, on 10/24/2007, -2/+18Can we "blackwaterboard" these *****? I resent their very existance in my country.
- deleo, on 10/24/2007, -2/+18Why do I have a feeling that Dick Cheney will be getting a $500,000 speaking engagement fee for Blackwater's annual corporate retreat in February of 2009.
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