Comments on: Blackwater Guards Indicted For Shooting

Five Indicted, One In Plea Negotiations, But Charges Won't Be Revealed Until Monday; Use Of Drug Law In Question

[legacyabq]

I highly highly doubt they will get a conviction under this law..
It seems as though they know it, and are complicit with the defense..

[jerr11]

It''s the same old story.

The pawn in the crime gets 30 years.

The mastermind behind the crime planning to build his 2.5 million dollar home in Dallas, right next to his presidential library and the cemetery with over 4200 headstones of the American troops he killed in his illegal war.

[macusweil]

A mercenary by any other name..

The folks in Bush administration who broke laws on the prohibition against hiring mercenary should do time. They hired these thugs they should be responsible for their action.

US outspends every nation on earth so we can have best military so why did we need hire these criminals anyway?

[rjmcbs]

Fat Chance. Read the story of Sgt.Martinez

[armysgt1]

jh6379again

I am sure at one time or another you have flown on a plane that a defense contractor built. Boeing, Northrop, and Lockheed all make civilian transportation. So by flying you are supporting them.

[armysgt1]

jh6379again

Do you support companies like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin? They get paid to make the planes that are designed to kill. Does that mean they are also thugs

[donevis-2009]

Why do so many of you like to associate Blackwater with President Bush?
Posted by ArmySGT1 at 10:03 AM : Dec 05, 2008

It''s the Way that Bush used them and how they turned into paid thugs. How would you feel to have foreigners jump out of a truck, gun down a bunch of civilians including your wife and 3 year old son. My opinion, 30 years is light.

[armysgt1]

Why do so many of you like to associate Blackwater with President Bush? Blackwater was founded and received their first contracts under the Clinton Administration. In addition, I am sure that if any one of you were to visit Iraq you would request them to be your guards. Remember they have not lost a single person they were paid to protect. That includes many of our Congressional leaders that are now against them.

[hologram5]

If any of those people supporting the blackwater people were to watch what they did to people in New Orleans they would change their tune. Blackwater was the organization responsible for taking away people''s weapons in the Katrina fiasco. The ones that beat up an 80 year old woman for a 38 snubnose. Nice guys, they need prison time to teach them a lesson.

[dakkotadawg]

They have to be charged now so they can get pardoned. Man, you guys are just to cynical and deep, it''s not that complicated!

[chris32324]

i d be willing to bet no charges will be laid,no blackwater people will go to jail,these types of charges laid against them under the regan crack law would never stick.

[whiskyrokr]

$hit happens. Leave these guys alone.

[grumpas]

this is just how to support out fighting men, in or out of uniform.

Posted by AmJoe

I would hardly call this bunch of mercenary''s our fighting men!!! They are well paid thugs!!!! This is not a cheap way to conduct a war. They can use their war profits to defend themselves in court.

[runningralph]

tincup356 says "we have a lot of gall to call ourselves the most peace loving country". Whoever said that? In fact we are the most attacked country in the world. And he is another attacker. Another attacker is rudy6543. He says security guards are worthless trash. I agree with AmJoe. We should support people who provide our security. If there is a bad apple, pick them out. Don''t destroy the system while we are at war.

[evian_ycnan]

Posted by AmJoe at 07:02 AM : Dec 05, 2008

There`s always the War Crimes Act. Wide open. Besides, the Fed never has difficulty in stretching laws when it comes to people carrying large amounts of cash, doctor-assisted suicide and medical marijuana, even civil rights.

So lump it!

[evian_ycnan]

Blackwater is making a fortune off these Somali pirates by putting armed contingents on cruise and merchant ships.

Wouldn''t suprise me at all if they aren`t also training the pirates

[johnpatrick9]

These guys are highly paid fascist scumball and deserve punishment for the *** they have been getting away with. We are a Republic and don''t need these yahoos running around sucking up our taxes and buthchering people in our name. More Republican free enterprise crapoola. Hang them high for their crimes.

[evian_ycnan]

The Iraqis just sentenced the US to 3 years for blowing up their country.

So thirty for some individual killers seems reasonable.

If a bomb explodes in Baghdad and CNN isn`t there to report it, does anyone get kill?

[rudy6543]

Posted by AmJoe at 07:02 AM

Defending people who shoot the innocent.

[rudy6543]

Here''s one way to fix the budget. Fire Blackwater altogether and then sue the company for everything it got under Bush. These people are the most worthless trash around.