Comments on: Murky Legal Issues Cloud Blackwater Case

Investigations Into Multiple Iraqi Deaths Offer Window Into Shadowy Private Security Firm

[spokane-guy]

My ex-wife has a swastika on her birth certificate. Her dad was a clerk to the SS in Poznan, Poland. She tells me that the mindset behind Blackwater structuring and social interaction is terribly similar to that of German SS formation and thinking in the 1940s.

[spokane-guy]

My ex-wife has a swastika on her birth certificate. Her dad was a clerk to the SS in Poznan, Poland. She tells me that the mindset behind Blackwater structuring and social interaction is terribly similar to that of German SS formation and thinking in the 1940s.

[spokane-guy]

My ex-wife has a swastika on her birth certificate. Her dad was a clerk to the SS in Poznan, Poland. She tells me that the mindset behind Blackwater structuring and social interaction is terribly similar to that of German SS formation and thinking in the 1940s.

[duhrer]

There is no flag in the world big enough to cover the shame of killing innocent civilians.

[acxeptddty]

This comment is Exhibit A to what I just said:

"do yall not know how vualable blackwater and other private firms are to this war. "Hired Killers" what the hell are you talking about?! They are hired to protect vip convoys at any cost and if in the mist they use leathal force then that is there job. Civil''''s were killed, do you know the facts of how it happened, how the did not apply to warnings, no matter what langage you speak man with gun and holding hand up, you should be able to understand that. why do we people provide you freedom so you can say what you want to and in return you talk bad about us when you don''t know the whole storie. it is sad to think this is the country that I love and are will to die for because of people who don''''t give a *** people like you."

Unfortunately, I do know the facts. Someone was shot in the head while driving a car in the general direction of the convoy and, while his mom held him screaming the car continued rolling toward that convoy. The Blackwater personnel opened fire on everyone in the vicinity; traffic was clogged and civilians in cars were trying to back up, some left their cars to flee. A woman dragged her ten year old son, lifeless, trying to escape. Many people were wounded or killed. There is utterly, absolutely, no evidence -- none -- that any posed a threat.

There are your facts.

[acxeptddty]

AaaBee is correct.

People who want America to stand for something substantive, good, and honorable need to stand up and be heard.

Sadly, as a nation we have come to be defined by intolerance, greed, and ignorance. That may be an America that a myopic "It''s All About Me" Republican is satisfied with, but it''s not an America that the rest of us want.

I for one have had enough of government by idiots who protect if not applaud the exploits of common thugs with guns.

[cwballardle]

do yall not know how vualable blackwater and other private firms are to this war. "Hired Killers" what the hell are you talking about?! They are hired to protect vip convoys at any cost and if in the mist they use leathal force then that is there job. Civil''s were killed, do you know the facts of how it happened, how the did not apply to warnings, no matter what langage you speak man with gun and holding hand up, you should be able to understand that. why do we people provide you freedom so you can say what you want to and in return you talk bad about us when you don''t know the whole storie. it is sad to think this is the country that I love and are will to die for because of people who don''t give a *** people like you.

[aaabee-2009]

I want the old United States back, when we stood for something proud and honorable.

Problem is, we can''t go back. Bush has taken this country to a new level of mean-spirited pointlessness, and there is no putting the ketchup back in the bottle.

[gkc99]

Accountable? This is Der Fuhrer''s private SS guard! They are accountable to nobody other than The Decider! Any objections, and you will be shot!

[aaabee-2009]

Posted by tuckerndfw at 09:40 AM : Oct 03, 2007

Agreed! We have US Soldiers being court-marshalled and their careers ruined for killing civilians, they are dishonorably discharged and put in prison.

But these "contractors" are not held to the same standards as our Soldiers who are fighting a war?

Come on. Always just outside the law, this administration. And Iraq can''t throw them out of their country. Whose country is it really?

Those same "contractors" will come back to the US and who will they work for then, Bush and Co? Don''t you want rules to apply to these thugs in or out of the US, they still are US citizens aren''t they?

[lochlan-2009]

Sounds like Blackwater is an "axis of evil" and should be listed as a terrorist organization.

[rochest]

I''m sorry I sent the post before correcting..... here is my corrected post the corrections are in caps

...paid private army = an nonregulated mercenary force

we don''''t own them, we don''''t control them, and they sure don''''t operate under laws that hold them accountable for their actions And they SURE get paid much better than the U.S. Military

next question... has ELSE anybody noticed how the numbers of contractors or how many work for which company or which U.S. government agency KEEP CHANGING?


SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BRING THEM HOME NOW AND FULL HEALTH-CARE WHEN THEY GET HERE!

[rochest]

paid private army = an nonregulated mercenary force

we don''t own them, we don''t control them, and they sure don''t operate under laws that hold them accountable for their actions 0 And they should get paid much better than the U.S. Military

next question... has anybody noticed how the numbers of contractors or how many work for which company or which U.S. government agency ?




SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BRING THEM HOME NOW AND FULL HEALTH-CARE WHEN THEY GET HERE!

[myidoncbs]

Hired killers do NOT create "murky legal issues". They are EVIL through and through. The only lower life forms on this planet than mercenaries are the ones who hire them to do their dirty work. (Bush, Cheney, the whole bunch of neo con men, and their brain-dead cheerleaders and supporters.)

Prince proudly proclaims, "not a single U.S. Official under the protection of Blackwater has been killed or seriously injured." But the ends do not justify the means! If the goal is to keep US Officials safe from harm, simply shut down the green zone and go home. They''d be infinitely safer at home, and no one else would have to die to keep them safe.

[zootallures2]

Nuts Inc.

[brianbwb-2009]

"However, that poses a hurdle: Blackwater was hired to provide security to the State Department in the Green Zone; prosecutors would have to show that the arrangement supported the Defense Department''s mission in Iraq."

Why is this so difficult? Where is the green zone?

"Another option would be to take the case to a military court."

Since when is Blackwater an officially sanctioned military body by the US government?

"The Bush administration has been hostile to the notion that the conventions apply in Iraq and the war on terror."

The Idiot in Chief declared war, therefore it falls under the convention as an armed conflict between two sovereign nations.

All the play with semantics is just trying to avoid being subject to the rule of law, which we are told to believe applies to everyone, including a bunch of drunken, mercenary Nazis, and the Fuhrer that hired them.

[signof4]

I''m surprised Myrtha hasn''t already lept to the cameras proclaiming them as ''cold blooded murderers'' - like he did the US Marines before they even had a trial.

[mcvet]

Wasn''t THIS how the SS came to be in Nazi Germany??