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- xjadams, on 10/10/2007, -2/+43Is anyone surprised?
It's Iran/Contra all over again. We've got attacks against civilians to stir up dissent. We've got weapons moving in via the US (or at least its corporate subsidiaries). I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we find out that the drugs are moving in to the US (they certainly are from Afghanistan).
These are old US tactics, we've just gone and privatized them now. That works better anyway. Now the US government can claim legal ignorance, Blackwater will be protected (even more fully than a US citizen since as entities, corporations have more rights anyway). - pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25more people need to know about what their tax dollars are going towards. of course the corporate media doesn't spend much time on reporting this. they spend all their time on OJ and how ahmadinejad is bringing words of mass destruction to our universities.
- masterc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23That just makes me sick. Those people didn't deserve to die.
- Roger, on 10/10/2007, -5/+25Its okay though, they're brown and very far away.
- SenorCardgage74, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24Is there a way we can locate members of this phantom 27% that still blindly support this administration and beat the ever-loving piss out of them?
Seriously, Im tired of being reasonable. - CkMaverick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14That is just sickening, those shooters should be here in court immediately on trial for their very lives with life imprisonment and death penalty being the only options available.
- zweben, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16Is this country hopeless?
I'm starting to think so. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12This is a message to Iraqis:
You have our support to engage all Blackwater mercenries wherever you find them in Iraq. We do not support these people they are not legitimate coalition soldiers, they are not our friends, they are taking our taxes and using them to recklessly kill innocent people in your country. They are the equivilent to your sectarian militias, please go ahead and protect your country from them, arm yourselfs and stand up for yourselves against Blackwater. Americans have the right to bear arms and protect themselves from foriegn attack, so do you, shoot to kill. - neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10unlike all the other people we slaughtered in Iraq as well as other countries ;)
- djohnmalkovich2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I'm afraid when the current administration (directly or indirectly) causes atrocities like that it will infuriate those people and they don't forget. Years later they'll come back at us with something big and guess who will be protected...the administration. Guess will be be dying:....us. It ***** sickens me how this administration doesn't seem to show any remorse towards even it's own people or care that it's actions can hurt it's own people.
How can you do these things like in the above article and not expect as Ron Paul said, "Blowback"!!! - neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10so you gonna trust the results of the investigation ?
i hope you realize any investigation will be conducted by largely the same people who are responsible for the murders in the first place.
there is approximately zero percent chance that they will be brought to justice - thats why they do it in the first place. - pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11it's 29. nice try.
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+15America has 1 hope left
his name is Ron Paul - RonBurgundy76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Keep this little comment in your mind in the future when the dollar is worthless and people really are starving and dying.
- Alex2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9No problemo.. just give them a presidential pardon.
Life is good. - neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10you misunderstand what reasonable means
kicking bush supporters in the face is perfectly reasonable
back in the days they used to have bush/cheney stickers on their cars but the cockroaches got smarter, they dont want their cars set on fire ... - ClOlD, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Dugg down for using the phrase "web 2.0". That's SOOO C-Net.
- SignorDildo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8"If the administration didn't care about the country's economy, we wouldn't be there."
Fixed that for you. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7They're NOT there to protect Iraqis from insurgents you ***** idiot. Blackwater is contracted to provide PRIVATE SECURITY, they are not a police force, they are not a peacekeeping force, they are not tasked with patroling the streets, they do not investigate car bombs, they do not arrest insurgents.
As far as Iraqis are concerned, Blackwater is just another thing to be worried about - when you leave your house you're pretty much concerned with 3 things: car bombs, kidnappings, and getting shot in the face by trigger happy Blackwater employees. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6What the ***** is wrong with you, they cant kick out insurgents because insurgents dont take orders from the Iraqi government. Blackwater does however. If they dont leave then Iraqis have a right to shoot them where they stand. Just like you would have a right to shoot them if they invaded your country.
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5i think he's referring to sentencing, not verdict.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9ROFL Republicans are so ashamed of Bush's approval rating they will even try and claim its a pathetic 36% rather than 29%
- neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6they very well might
thats why the constitution gives you right to bear arms - stolenisotope1, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9Wow buddy, you are a bit slow there... America has been hopeless since the days of Richard Nixon. His ability for corruption has given the future generations of Presidents the ability and the knowledge that they can just about get away with anything.
- inactive, on 10/29/2007, -1/+5Daily Herald: Blackwater is the same private mercenary crowd that went door-to-door confiscating guns from people in New Orleans not affected by hurricane Katrina. http://www.harktheherald.com/component/option,com_ ...
the City of New Orleans now admits it has more than 1000 firearms it confiscated from citizens following Hurricane Katrina. ... http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/archives/2006-03-21
YouTube - NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4
YouTube - National Guard Confiscating Guns in New Orleans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm5PC7z79-8
New Orleans officials confiscating guns - Wikinews http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/New_Orleans_officials_ ...
Gun Confiscation In New Orleans http://www.gunowners.org/no02.htm
Bill to prevent feds from confiscating guns http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/huston/060110
NRA Comments on Gun Confiscation in New Orleans http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/gun_g ...
Katrina inspires bans on gun seizures http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?conten ...
Katrina & Guns on National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/lott20060321 ...
Senate Votes to Bar Emergency Gun Confiscation http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0714-06.ht ...
La. Judge Issues TRO in Wake of Katrina Gun Confiscations http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/pl/gun/20051003/20 ...
Profiting from Katrina - The Center for Public Integrity: Under pressure from the National Rifle Association, New Orleans police this week began returning guns confiscated after Hurricane Katrina, ... http://www.publicintegrity.org/katrina/filter.aspx ...
Police and soldiers confiscated guns from homes and some evacuees http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002070.p ...
Katrina-Rita tribunal to focus on U.S. crimes: Survivors found that their own weapons were confiscated, while mercenaries from Blackwater and other corporations were sent in to patrol the streets. http://www.workers.org/2007/us/katrina-rita-0726/
Blackwater helped Ray Nagin to confiscate people's guns during Katrina http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/007022.ht ...
In the days after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police went door to door and confiscated guns from citizens in an effort to counter chaos and crime in the ... http://www.poynter.org/dg.lts/id.2/aid.121715/colu ...
They confiscated his gun and hushed it up. That’s not equal justice.” ... houses in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, devastated by Hurricane Katrina. ... http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/view/11770/
Blackwater is among three private security firms employed by the State .... that illegally confiscated fire arms from law abiding citizens after Katrina. http://www.theblackvault.com/ftopicp-544905.html - neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5not only video games, also movies where heroic americans get to shoot bad guys
bad guys is anybody who is not american, ask any hollywood producer
actually one such movie's ad was directly to the right of the article ... - neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5a soldier's job is to die, not speak
they should have told you at some point in your training that you are not required to have an opinion
you should have been paying attention ... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Blackwater & Aegis ... inhuman, war-profiteering *****-piles ... burn in hell.
- neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5soldiers are too young to understand anything, you cant really blame them ...
- heystoopid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Whilst these basically evil scum from Blackwater deserved to be executed by firing squad now this instant, the sad reality in life is , they have already been given the get out of jail free card , at every level by the US Military Command in Iraq and by Foggy Bottom as well !
There will be no justice for those they deliberately murdered in cold blood that fateful day ! - sishgupta, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4If it's any consolation, the drugs have always rolled in from Afghanistan...
- neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4it is a misconception that bush worries about your ability to fill up your V8 with premium unleaded
he actually worries about his saudi friends being able to sell that premium unleaded to you at twice the price that they charged before he became president - urbandistrict, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This is not the people's war and it's well beyond out of hand.
What a fine mess this administration has got us into, all for the sake of prolonging the inevitable crawl towards recession and fleecing our money reserves.
Obama seems poised to win (despite the rally for Ron Paul) and he will be faced with the impossible and blamed for it's failure.
What a sad state our country is in.... - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4thats half the reason why the US even invaded afganistan
- heystoopid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Like every other incompetent US military investigation , the fix is is in , the top General Petreaus or similar senior ranker like the C in C has given his verbal request and the chief investigation officer has been told what he can and cannot write up , thus has already written the official report(remember the penalty for disobeying any order from a senior officer is court martial and Fort Leavenworth). They are just marking time for until the release of the usual exoneration white wash ! All Iraqi eye witness reports ignored as usual Haditha style !
Don't forget the AEGIS shoot up in 2004 on the road from Baghdad Airport , killing innocent Iraqi's that day , was a white wash job from the outset !
The die is set and the US Military Investigation Officer will presumably say a number of terrorists opened fire on the convoy from a car killing a few unfortunate civilians caught in the cross fire and the Mercenaries returned restrained gunfire killing the rebels and wounding the odd Iraqi civilian in the process ! - iamorlando, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I bet this is nothing new for iraqis, I mean, a security company that is protected from iraqui and US law has no incentive to respect basic human rights. It is absolutley sick and disgusting to let this company run outside the law
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ASz-iKOOnyI
blackwater in Spanish literally means ***** water, I don't think they ever thought of coming to latin america, thank god. - goffy59, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6***** you, do you think i give a rats ass if your a soldier or not? Go get shot you waste of space.
- inactive, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3Watch 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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZX1odzHdAo (2:40 min)
If you'd like to learn more about this contractor see http://www.wtprn.com/Blackwater.html
Even more info:
PBS - Bill Moyers, Video 9:49 min
The Secret Government - The Constitution in Crisis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzr6OPN46io
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 ***** out. And for the ***** 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. - SquigglyP, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5in the US, if you have a gun and someone shoots at you, you are free to then blow their head off. You can always run and hide if you want, but protecting yourself is also an option.
- heystoopid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4***** yeah , so they could flood the world with more ***** then the North Koreans could make in two lifetimes !
Six thousand seven hundred metric tons in 2006 and a 25% production increase predicted for '07 due to the ever generous Tony Blair extorting more funds from the hapless British tax payer , to fund irrigation extension improvement works , or a grand total of eight thousand three hundred and seventy five tons or so !
Not bad for a country that is under full US Military / NATO jurisdiction in every province , for it blows away the five hundred tons produced under the watchful eye and shipped around the world on CIA Air America in a war called Vietnam back in the sixties ! Could this be the reason why a certain Football Hero was executed and the Generals were told to cover it up by giving him a medal !
Mind you under the displaced Taliban , in 2001 it was a mere one hundred tons at best estimate , as they publicly executed all captured Drug Lords and dealers on the spot in the old sports grounds and threw their ***** straight into a furnace !
That is one hell of a lot of horse ! - heystoopid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Concur , the immediate public execution by firing squad , is the preferred option after a short trial , say of three days maximum with a guilty verdict at the end of the trial !
- neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4there is no more reliable way of protecting the public than exterminating them
- davidlow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"As they often do, guards from the US firm -- the largest private security operators in Iraq -- hurled water bottles at cars to stop traffic as they drove through."
This is the undercurrent of contempt, for the people they're supposed to be protecting, that leads to "accidents" like this. - heystoopid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3They already have one , the usual Army white wash report was done on the same day , and they are now awaiting a fortuitous time to release same !
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2liveleak.com
- neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3very simple - we are NOT "their own people"
you see them on TV but they never see you, for them you dont even exist and they give a rats ass what happens to you
when bush goes on tv his supporters think he came over for a visit to talk much like god comes to speak to them ...
they will never understand that bush doesnt know who they are and doesnt want to know, he sits in an empty room and reads teleprompter ... - SquigglyP, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i thought about why you would choose to use the words you used, and i can't think of any reason you would do that beyond a) wanting to provoke angry responses or b) because you're retarded. Either way i don't really get why you'd post it. I could be missing the point, and maybe your comment is some elaborate and cryptic puzzle of a message, and you're really saying "Yeah, ***** Blackwater!" in a really weird way. Anyway, this is Digg, man. Many people are too stupid or lazy to try to read into a message, and your message isn't really anything that's possible to read into... it just sounds like you spewed some stupid crap and then tried to confuse people with a post-script. In any event, i didn't bury you cause i don't do that to comments. In the future it's better to just be blatantly obvious with your comments. People here won't get most jokes unless you include a '/sarcasm' at the end. They're just too stupid.
- TaranWalker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Are you trying to be ironic? Why not just go for "comprehensible?"
And why are you using "Neo-Con" language? - PeppermintPig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Could have been taken either way. Very vague.
- neurosport, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3if only they cared about country's economy ... they only care about their own campaign contributors which represent a rather small and isolated slice of that economy
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