 BobbyRutan says: More: Blackwater is one of many security firms contracted by the U.S. government during the Iraq war. An estimated 25,000-plus employees of private security firms are working in Iraq, guarding diplomats, reconstruction workers and government officials. As many as 200 are believed to have been killed on the job, according to U.S. congressional reports. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee estimated in February that nearly $4 billion had been spent on security contracts amid the insurgency that followed the U.S. invasion in 2003 -- costs that have forced the delay, cancellation or scaling back of some reconstruction projects. Sunday's incident highlighted concerns in the U.S. Congress about a subject that one lawmaker, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, has called "one of the biggest gray areas of the entire war effort" -- the legal status of private security firms in Iraq. The Iraqi Govt. makes one definite move and it is to ban one of BushCo.'s great profit-driven tools from their land. That is awesome. I wonder how Iraq will enforce this, and if BushCo. will take them seriously. That will be an interesting thing to watch. Question is, will it get overruled in Washington? Woohoo, Bravo! It was negligence by contractors that spawned the worthless and deadly Fallujah offensive, too. They are accountable to no one, and if they get caught in a crime against Iraqis, they get flown home where Iraqi law has no validity. Yet what they do is seen as American. Interesting commentary from Daily Kos can be found here. "Iraqi Justice" for Blackwater? Sounds fun. But seriously, Iraqi animosity is not so much directed at America as it is at the occupation, and the corporate profiteering. I would lay good money on the probability that the Iraqi government also eventually tries evict Bechtel and Haliburton and nationalize the oil industry. At that point, I suppose we will just have to re-invade them. No don't say it, watch out, DOH! Now you've done it........ you said what we all know, IT"S ALL ABOUT THE OIL! The bush sheep on Clipmarks will be after you. Not that you will have any difficulties knocking down their lunatic assertions. Actually, I get they feeling they've moved on to arguing about Iran. That seems to be the Bush agenda: as soon as you can't win one war, just start another. That seems to be the Bush agenda: as soon as you can't win one war, just start another.As sad as that sounds, it certainly seems to be the case. How can the man live in in his own skin? Well their back in business.... Comparing this Blackwater farce to the VIDEO of protests in Burma... On a slight tangent, living outside the US, I can guarantee that the only people who think this war was waged for ideals such as freedom and democracy are dangerously naive right-wing apologists in the US. Everywhere else the story that we are trying to grow democracy has ZERO credibility. To the rest of the world this war was waged on the basis of Imperialism, Corruption, and Moral Exceptionalism. No amount of rhetoric can shake this conviction. If we want to know why it is that nobody believes us when we talk about ideals, look at the protests in Burma. The Bur... |
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