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By: TheRealityBasedDave

TheRealityBasedDave — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:28:35 +0000

And so it goes…
Until the corporate heads are held accountable by being LOCKED UP (not tried, not convicted, not fined…) this shit will continue to happen.
So sayeth Obviousman.

By: MartianPolitics

MartianPolitics — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:44:25 +0000

The final decision on any charges will not be made until late summer at the earliest, a law enforcement official said.

I agree with that. In fact, I can confidently predict that the final decision on any charges will not be made until January 20, 2009 at the earliest.

By: MetalMonkey

MetalMonkey — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:39:02 +0000

George Bush created a WPA program for them at Halliburton and Blackwater.

Blackwater product of WPA and WTO marriage. WTO=World Tourist Organization.

By: makeitstop

makeitstop — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:46:20 +0000

In my mind, Blackwater is the most obvious example of how badly our democracy has been damaged by the Bush cabal. If someone had told me 6 years ago that we’d have a mercenary organization running half the military ops in Iraq, making billions of dollars from the US government while being incorporated via shell companies in the Caymans to avoid SS taxes, unemployment insurance, and FICA, and that the press would treat it as a totally normal aspect of modern American life, I would have found that person to be a total paranoid. And look at where we are; Blackwater is accepted by the press and the country as no big deal, nothing to see here.

Once this election gets down to just 2 candidates, I want to see this issue beaten with a big stick by the political action committees, preferrably by using some calls to the founding fathers about the use of mercenary organizations, combined with the reports of the many who’ve been wronged by these bastards.

By: JDM3

JDM3 — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:00:40 +0000

What Ruthie said, here at the end of Amerika’s 400 Year Reich.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:04:41 +0000

Blackwater is what happens when the Klan goes corporate.

By: captphealy

captphealy — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:26:00 +0000

Stories like this make me understand the attraction of religion. A belief in hell, or karmic retribution through reincarnation as a lower form of life*, would be some small comfort here.

Yes, yes, duly noted - they’re already lower forms of life.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:52:01 +0000

Forget the solders I want the leader of Blackwater up on war crimes I want his companies assets and family wealth seized.

By: allan

allan — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:47:39 +0000

Instead, the 7-month-old Justice Department investigation is focused on as few as three or four Blackwater guards who could be indicted in the Sept. 16 shootings,

The DOJ should be renamed the DOLLMP (Department of Low Level Munchkin Prosecutions).

By: Gnome de Plume

Gnome de Plume — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:37:19 +0000

Yeah, obviously it was the work of just “a few bad apples.”