Comments on: FBI To Probe Blackwater Shooting

Investigation Launched Amid Report Detailing Contractor's Widespread Violations

[lars008-2009]

if demonic-rats had any brains,,, they would be republicans,,, lol

hahaha

[abbe91]

After the massacre of a few hundred peaceful Indians in Amritsar, the UK finally had the decency to give its independence to India. I wonder if Bush is going to do the same with his colony in the middle-east.

Erik Prince should be arrested and sent to Iraq to stand trial for the crimes committed by the thugs and murderers he hires and that represent his "guns for hire" company.

That fake christian piece of excrement Prince should hang from the gallows - or even better - hand him over to the families of those his thugs have killed.

[drinuk]

For every dollar paid to these undisciplined mercenaries someone is taking at least ten cents commission, whoever that may be should be strung up. The FBI should check out the figures very carefully.
Ten per cent of $10,000 per, week per man is a whole lot of cash, it is taxpayers cash and should be fully accountable. Time to start looking at those Swiss Bank Accounts.

[keithle1]

Contractors "killed & dismembered" in 2004? Big whoop.

All most contractors do is bleed Uncle Sam dry.

Blackwater mercenaries are nothing but scum, thugs and murderers.

If every last one of them was wiped off this earth, I wouldn''t care.

[alphaa10-2009]

Note the FBI investigates Blackwater after some four years of such operations and constant reports of "irregulatities".

Has the sudden American interest in correcting Blackwater anything to do with the fact Iraqis want the firm (and others) out of the country?

We can be sure the Iraqis are simply overwhelmed by out intense concern about possible Blackwater misconduct.

xzavierbrown wrote:

"it is hard to conduct warfare against an enemy THAT DOES NOT WEAR a uniform..DOES NOT CARRY a dogtag..DOES NOT HAVE AN AGE LIMIT on its combatants...DOES NOT ABIDE TO conventional warfare..

if we fail to understand this..then we are fu cked."

And yet, you have repeatedly stated that they should be there.

What does that make you? *** ed?

By the way, our troops are among the best in the world - if we can''t beat a few insurgents, then what the hell are we still doing there?

[boondoggler7]

There is a saying that only the dead know the truth about war. Send this link to all the politicians who support this war as a an e-mail from beyond the grave.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/JohnnyGotHisGun.html

[mh4cbs1]

"reckless behavior" ?????

Blackwater civilian-killer terrorists have been on the loose since 2003! Accountable to Nobody.

Face it Bush and Cheny deliberately LIED to the American people to INVADE IRAQ. The spineless complicit corporate-owned Democrats DO NOTHING to stop the NeoCon Nightmare.

Impeach and JAIL Cheney and Bush for their War Crimes!

[johnny_chaos]

The amount paid to Halliburton-KBR is roughly three times what the U.S. government paid to fight the entire 1991 Persian Gulf War.

yepper, we got us some real fiscal conservatives here. odd that this is the company the vice president used to run, which broke UN sanctions and sold Nuclear technology to Iran, which has numerous offshore divisions to aviod taxes on its profits.

wow- chimpdick is a great administration, hands down the greatest swinders ever.

[johnny_chaos]

basically, we leveled fallujah for four of these cowboys, lost actual soldiers in that fight. not hired guns, but enlisted men. there are any number of reports of blackwater employees taking potshots at iraqis, and they seem to panic under fire. not really professional in any sense.

think back, the convoys, blackwater employees have been *** up and getting soldiers killed since the war started.

they are a liablity. for instance:
Employees of Blackwater USA have engaged in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, in a vast majority of cases firing their weapons from moving vehicles without stopping to count the dead or assist the wounded, according to a new report from Congress.

State Department officials are likely to say that they had no other option but to use the firm, given their lack of Diplomatic Security forces -- conveniently ignoring that the department has chosen to hollow out its Diplomatic Security corps and instead hand over the task to a consortium of private firms led by Blackwater under a multibillion-dollar contract.

[johnny_chaos]

gosh, were using 160,000 mercenarys to fight the war. we''ve paid Haliburtion more then the first gulf war cost and were essentially losing. blackwater should be held accountable under the geneva conventions. all that blackwater has done is increase the conflict.

anyway, the owner Prince is getting paid back in a major way for his contirbutions to the chimps presidential sluch fund.

xzavierbrown, i know uniforms turn you on.

we really dont need to be fighting this war. its a waste of american lives, treasure, world standing, etc. when we ahve to face down china, were screwed. the chimp shot americas wad early. now, we got to deal with Russia, China, and the middle east with our trousers wadded up on the floor.

[brianbwb-2009]

If Blackwater is guilty what do you do make them pay restitution to the families of those they are alleged to have shot? You do that and you open another can for them to sue our government to civilians that were shot during the fighting.
Posted by rfcnj68

So when a civilian organization commits crimes, are you suggesting they be allowed to do so with impunity because the sanctions would cost too much?

Or are you saying that when a government is basically hijacked by leaders with personal agendas, who order US troops to commit crimes against humanity, that they also shouldn''t be held responsible, for the same reason, that the sanctions would cost too much?

Such a position is akin to letting a rapist continue to rape, because his capture and punishment would cost him and/or his family too much.

The threat or being held responsible should exist for all, otherwise there is no more law, and when that happens, I wouldn''t want to be the owner of expensive property...

[ioweign]

it is hard to conduct warfare against an enemy THAT DOES NOT WEAR a uniform..DOES NOT CARRY a dogtag..DOES NOT HAVE AN AGE LIMIT on its combatants...DOES NOT ABIDE TO conventional warfare..

if we fail to understand this..then we are fu cked.

Posted by xzavierbrown at 11:17 PM : Oct 01, 2007

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Do you kinda get the feeling that Bush senior had it right when he didn''t go into Baghdad in the Gulf War I ??

A "C" student may be really pushing it for Junior, he not good at connecting the dots !!

[rfcnj68]

If what is stated above is true that they are involved in more shootings than the other 2 firms combined maybe it is time to (A) look at their work load and maybe divide it up between the three companies a little more evenly or (B) Take a closer look at the files on those that Blackwater employee.

My bet is if they have the bulk of the work then they are hiring in mercenaries and bounty hunters to fill in the work force and a lot of these folks are always geared for a fight.

The biggest problem here that everyone has missed is that they have paid this firm 1 billion dollars already, not million, yes it said billion, so how much corner cutting do you think is going on to protect that profit, my guess, a lot.

Here is how you solve the whole problem much like our troops lets bring the diplomats home, if Iraqi wants to talk their diplomats can come here and supply their own protection and negotiate. There we just saved more than a billion dollars over 1 = years.

If Blackwater is guilty what do you do make them pay restitution to the families of those they are alleged to have shot? You do that and you open another can for them to sue our government to civilians that were shot during the fighting.

[brianbwb-2009]

"...after saying that..how can you distinguish an enemy from a civilian??? how can you tell when majority of the insurgency are cvilians..
Posted by xzavierbrown,

Your own statement shows the civilians are simply defending themselves from a hostile invader. They are not MY enemy, they''re the enemy of the invaders. Blackwater has no business even being there, neither do our troops.

Your frequent posts indicate that you believe that the US has the right to invade any sovereign state it chooses, kill any and all it wishes with impunity, not for the purpose of defense of the US, but to facilitate the agendas of private corporations, and as far as you are concerned, the victims have no right to resist.

[hungry1968]

Here are the "security forces" "defending" themselves.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11157.htm

[j-whitman]

xzavierbrown,,,, Do you understand what a failure is that we had to resort to using contracted security was in the 1st place ?? ---- Ask a soldier or marine what they think of them.

[lastdance2]

RE : xzavierbrown
OFTEN FIRED UPON AND ATTACKED at same frequency as our military force.
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Prove it - Show us the official reports - Other than Blackwater

Security guards are always in the - Defence mode - Not - Attack mode

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