Oh, come on. Tell me you can pass by an Iraqi without shooting them. It's like walking past a toothpick dispenser without grabbing one, even if you don't normally use toothpicks.
Weren't you listening to your Republican overlords at all over the last 2 years? It's rainbows and ponies and ice cream for everyone over there all day every day!
Now that the government isn't full of people who will happily ship them pallets of "reconstruction money", yeah, they can probably make a bigger profit shooting poor black people in Louisiana.
Every single Blackwater shooter/instructor that I've met has been a professional, with backgrounds in various Special Operations units. They're generally good people, despite the ignorant rumours which have been spread about them.
1 - I'm not from the US. 2 - Iraq is a shithole, for skilled operators like the ones from Blackwater. 3 - I think that ALL politicians (including Obama) are douchebags, until they prove otherwise. So far, no dice.
Yes. But that is the company simply standing up for their employees. If they use that as a defense in a court of law, as opposed to arguing ROE's, they're fucking stupid.
Next time, maybe the douchebag Republican politicians who reap the exclusive benefits of Erik Prince's blood money will pick a better sovereign nation to invade, occupy and destroy on a pretextual basis so that Blackwater can massacre women and children, make illegal arms shipments, gas US troops and rake in a BILLION FUCKING DOLLARSof US taxpayer money in a non-shithole country.
The organisation was dropped into a shitty situation, with a mixed combatant/civilian population. The vast, vast majority of 'incidents' involving BW are not black and white - but shades of grey.
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Date: 2009-01-30 12:14 am (UTC)An alternative explanation is that it's a conspiracy by Yahoo to reduce attention to "unfavorable" articles. FNORD!
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Date: 2009-01-30 05:20 pm (UTC)2 - Iraq is a shithole, for skilled operators like the ones from Blackwater.
3 - I think that ALL politicians (including Obama) are douchebags, until they prove otherwise. So far, no dice.
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Date: 2009-01-30 05:22 pm (UTC)That doesn't change what the organisation has done.
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Date: 2009-01-30 07:20 pm (UTC)illegal arms shipments, gas US troops and rake in a BILLION FUCKING DOLLARSof US taxpayer money in a non-shithole country.
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Date: 2009-01-30 08:10 pm (UTC)As a result, I cannot expect you to understand the scope and nature of the missions that PMC's like those at Blackwater are trained to execute.
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