Letters to the Editor
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@bdop4
Garry makes a vivid (as usual) point.
But just for you, in simple terms, because you seem to be very naive:
fact: Blackwater gets half a million dollars a year per guy...do you think they care who those guys are?
fact: there are plenty of documented instances of gross misconduct and unprovoked shootings involving "private security forces". The guy who drunkenly killed the bodyguard of an Iraqi official went home to his construction business without any punishment. Beats death row, doesn't it?
fact: the Army has been so ground into the dust by Rumsfeld, Cheney and Junior that they are now accepting criminals. Do you think Blackwater would do less for the enormous amounts of cash at stake? Do you think this administration cares?
fact: the DOD and the State Department have admitted to a complete lack of oversight on these people and their actions. They have also been proven to be complicit in covering up their misdeeds.
Tell me again, simplistically, how it just makes sense that a company like Blackwater would NEVER have an unrestrained, out-of-control security force that is answerable to no one.
As for factoring in the locals, are you kidding? Blackwater doesn't pad its details with locals. They are the Iraqi military and the Iraqi police, who have not managed to stand up so we can stand down.
Ask a returning Iraq vet and he will very likely tell you that he has just as high a risk of being killed by corrupt Iraqi military and police, as any other source.
Don't you read the papers or the internet. I know a lot gets stifled, but even the lazy and disinterested main stream media has uncorked this putrefying private security mess with all its creepy and frightening aspects.
WAKE UP!!