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There is no way that a real investigation will ever take place. The government has obviously been aware of what Blackwater has been doing. There have been formal complaints from the family members of murdered unarmed civilians. There have been complaints from the Iraqi government. There have been complaints from religious groups. There have been comments by active service army and marine personnel. There have been many more than 5 incidents, but none will be truly investigated because Erik Prince managed to get immunity from US Martial law and from Iraqi civil law.
There will never be a trial. The government will string this out and tell Blackwater to control is operatives better until the public forgets who Blackwater is.

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the us army needs to deal with blackwater

nobody runs iraq except us i dont even care if there from the usa blackwater is a disgrace they think there some kinda of black special force ninjas

lets show them just how powerful they are when tehy go up against our billionaire dollar army there scrubs an there ognna get whats comin tot hem nobody makes a fool out of the usa an gets away with it

To succeed in Iraq, the invading forces would have needed to win the hearts and minds of a large majority of the people. There was a window early on where this could have happened, but it is gone now, and this sort of indiscriminate killing will ensure that window never opens again.

If the U.S. war planners were less inept, they would have treated the whole exercise like a U.S. presidential election and tried to win the Iraqi people over to what they were doing. The George Bush team's strength is in campaigning not governing. If they had applied this strength to Iraq it could have easily worked out with much less bloodshed.

Any reason not to leave now? The invasion has removed Saddam Hussein, ensured that Iraq has no nuclear or chemical weapons, basically the U.S. forces have won.

Such a cliche evil name to boot... Might as well have been Umbrella Corp. Every time I read an article title with Blackwater in it, it always sounds like something out of a movie.

I really have no problem with Iraqis shooting Blackwater soldiers on sight, if these assholes came to my country and pretended to be the law I'd be ***** livid.

BLACKWATER personnel are highly paid and do horrendous war crimes, unaccountable for hiding behind the banner of a corporation, murder a bunch of civiliand and hightail it back to the green zone leaving enlisted military there as scapegoats, hostage to the justified anger, and human shields catching all the bullets. BLACKWATER gets its funding from basically the same place as our military, no bid contracts to parent corporation Halliburton (CHENEY!)
and "corporate welfare". the US military and the people of Iraq ought to declare WAR upon Blackwater, and the people responsible here at home for them being there, should be tried for treason immediately.

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NPR- Blackwater Eyes Domestic Contracts in U.S. (podcast and text)
Their thinking is simple. The Iraq war won't last forever, so if the company wants to stick around, it needs an alternate business plan. Work here at home is one solution. "The only difference between Blackwater in Iraq and Blackwater in New Orleans is that they are mercenaries in Iraq and they are vigilantes in New Orleans," ..."media blackout"

The incident where Blackwater fired at US Marines takes the cake. Those ***** wannabe cowboys deserve to fry.

I am from the south and I know some people who went to work for BW. With this knowledge I am very surprised that there are not more incidents of this nature. Deer hunter types that somehow grew bored with their quarry.
No one should feel bad about these guys losing their lives. They signed up for it and death is something they seek readily.

This is what the monkey had to say about the whole incident...“Their review should be serious, probing and comprehensive. Once they have established baseline facts, I look forward to hearing their recommendations on how to protect our people while furthering our foreign policy objectives.” Do notice, it doesn't mention the protection of the Iraqis!!!!!! Go eat a banana, condi!

I have been refraining myself from saying this ever since the first Blackwater issue came out... but I just can't stand the hypocrisy. All these Blackwater "scandals" appearing recently are just another way of the government, and a great part of us, to individualize the collective fault of US, as a whole, for the atrocities committed in Iraq. Its so tragic. Not acting in such cases is equivalent to being an accomplice. Tragic.

There are terrorist camps in the US run by the US government.

Corporate mercenaries shouldn't be in Iraq. Further, corporations shouldn't be allowed to have their own military, what does the future hold is we allow this?

Blackwater pwnz. u fags r just jealous u dont pwn that much.

Blackwater's business plan calls for expanding operations inside the US, and they were already active in Katrina. They will be totally unaccountable to us. They want to be the new brownshirts I guess. (source: Naomi Wolf, End of America)