Justice Dept.: Blackwater Contractor Saw Killing Iraqis as 9/11 Payback

Ah, Mr. Wexler, if only it was that easy. Do you really expect a President to give up any of the powers he has, whether good or bad? If that was the case, and Obama really believed in "change that we can believe in", he would have relinquished those powers usurped by Bush, as soon as he took office. The fact that he hasn't should speak volumes about Obama's intentions.

Neither has this government learned, even after Viet Nam, that a regular army will never defeat an army of guerillas. They will still insist that being in Afghanistan is a good thing, even though within days of the inevitable pullout, the Taliban will once again rule the country.

Everyone seems to have forgotten the real reason the US went into Afghanistan in the first place. It was not to defeat the Taliban and "bring peace to Afghanistan". It was to capture Osama bin Laden. A mission that will never be accomplished since he is already dead.

These 'wars' are not about bringing democracy or peace to those people, it is about the money that US contractors can steal. Or in the case of Iraq, the oil and the money. Witness that Halliburton charged the government several million dollars to repair an Iraqi bridge that the Iraqis said could have been repaired by their own engineers for about fifty thousand.

sick bastards i was happy when revenge was taken on blackwater

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I concur with with Buck having worked over here myself almost 5 years, with a short stint in a wheelchair due to an injury incurred in a rocket attack. Do Not believe everything that you are reading on the internet as gospel. There are many of us that believe the mission over here is just. Not a "sporting trip" as what was stated earlier. I myself and many others are quite happy not to have to fire our weapons in any manner whatsoever, unless it's at the range. The reference also made as the spelled "hajjis" actually it is not a derogatory term, they may believe it's a slang term reffereing to the LN's like Hajji from Johnny Quest. It's not, it is a term as a Muslim that has made the Hadj. To those who do not know what the Hadj is it is the Holy Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. Just another instance of Do not believe what you read on the Net. BTW feel free to come over to the NeoCon Christian Racist organization we may need help organizing the bake sale

Regards
Desrtvet

Sir Loin of Beef,
respectfully i didnt miss the posts i just dismissed them as the rants of the uninformed masses. We dont work for the President. We are not performing a military mission. We are not working in a Republic. We currently have (for some time now) an all volunteer citizens military.

We most certainly are not Mercenaries..Mercenaries are little more than hired thugs who hire to on perform offensive military missions in support of whichever country or organization that pays them,usually with no thought as to the consequences.

Dont sweat it, the uninformed normally mistake us as Mercenaries because they are well...uninformed.

We are no more Mercenaries than a Police Officer in the states who fires his weapon to defend himself,or a private security guard who does the same.

I have had honest work since i was old enough to work and will do so in the future.

As to the relying on hirelings as a predicator to the downfall of empires, i would say that most empires failed when the public realized they could vote themselves treasure from the public coffers. We need to get some Contracted Defenders of the Empire of the United States T-shirts made up for our bake sale ;)

Hopefully you are a little more informed now. Take care,
Buck

Ok Wexler...
We are in so called trigger pulling roles...so called by our uninformed fellow Americans for the most part. Quoting a newspaper as a valid source of information? Are you serious? Ask yourself this...why does the media exist? Is it to desiminate truthfull information for the betterment of mankind or to make money by overhyping sensationalist accounts of current events in order to sell more newspapers/airtime?

Can you name which Tier 1 military SOF units are trained and equipped to perform our mission (which isnt a military mission)? Said units are small and as you have noticed are curently involved in capturing and killing terrorists in the Global War On Terror. Plus there are not enough of them to handle near the amount of personnel needing protection in high threat environments OCONUS.

You keep going back to the fact that you think the convential military has at sometime in the past performed our job....they have not. It is a skillset that very few members of the military are trained and equipped for and even fewer have actually performed.

If you care to be reasonably informed as to the actual cost of using contractors vs troops in support roles (which im not involved in,im too busy not pulling triggers) i suggest you do some research on the "tooth to tail ratio".

You are also misinformed as to the military having any kind of recruitment or retention issue.

ASASSINATION SQUADS? Im not even going to dignify that with a response, for your sake and the sake of anyone you may come into contact with...PLEASE educate yourself. Its obvious you have drank the anti contractor koolaid from some source and you are going to do what you are going to do, but its blaringly obvious you have no idea whats going on here or how our Government works.

In my actual experience based on 8.5 years of actually performing these duties overseas and not garnered from research on the internet... the overwelming majority of the troops i have encountered were thankfull to have us on the ground(There have of course been a few exceptions). But thats just real world experience talking...dont let that conflict with what you have read on the interent i would hate to upset your pre-concieved notions of how it actually is over here.

Sorry i have to run our evil inc cookies are burning.
Regards,
Buck

Your hate fuels me Wexler..just thought you would enjoy hearing that and the fact that we are sitting here laughing at your ill informed posts.

Whatever makes you feel good good brother! Keep up that Crusade..take us down!

I actually have told you what i do but obviously you havent been able to calm down enough to decipher and retain the information.

Thats no way to go through life man, you are going to have a stroke should you continue.

I find it rather amusing that someone with ZERO experience in my line of work somehow thinks that he knows more about it than i do. Plenty of internet based subject matter experts around these days it seems.

What do you do for a living Sir?

I will find some information online about your proffession and tell you how it is! I will CAPITALIZE key words to show you how angry i am and resort to using profanity when im frustrated and everyone will see how much of a badass i am when i tell you how it is...even though i know nothing about the subject matter.

Its obvious you arent interested in hearing the truth Sir and im not going to try and change your mind. Of course you shouldnt just take my word for it either and i would encourage anyone else reading this blog to seek further information.

Try talking to some folks back in the states who either currently are contractors or have been in the past. Talk to actual Us Military Troops who have co-existed with contractors and ask them about thier experiences and opinions on the matter.

My point is dont assume that because something is posted on the internet or reported in the media that it automatically truthfull. If you are going to take a position on an issue at least have the courtesy to become reasonably well informed on it. If you dont you are no better than the reporters in the media spouting half truths in the first place.

The cookies are spectacular by the way;)
Regards,
Buck

Touche...
im actually freezing Oranges and cleaning a precision rifle in isolation,have another assasination mission in the morning.
Cheers,
Buck

Private sector involvement in all aspects of military, intelligence and homeland security are a massive concern if we hope to remain in the high ground of a moral and just nation status (which has become debatable in current times). It removes much of the public oversight, and creates a profit incentive for war, and espionage. Would any forward thinking nation ever rely on a mercenary army and private 'spys'? I can't imagine an informed citizenry ever knowingly accepting this.

buckshot, you don't think there is the slightest chance that your company is doing something less than honorable without your knowledge? such as the 2 men(in the know, like you) who have sworn depositions linking xe to mudering whistleblowers? just because you aren't informed of its dirty dealings doesn't mean they don't occur.
if you wanted to serve your country honorably, why did you opt out of military service to get the big bucks?

My fellow worker drones, you've been told; we are here to labor for our neo-feudal overlords who, it would seem, are protecting us from the latter day Saracens [Middle East] and Huns [Afghans and assorted C.Asians]. Pay your taxes so Buck and the boys can retire back to the fiefdom and pretend to be country squires.

But seriously, I don't fault these guys for what they are doing. In my line of work, I've worked and met some of them. Some of them do enjoy killing swarthy folk, but not all, and some truly believe in what they do. And there might be a small core of genuine racists, but overall not. There is, however, an intense institutional tribalism which I find both admirable and disturbing. I do fault the denizens of the cesspools in D.C., London, and Berlin who make this all war mongering possible, whatever political party they pretend to belong to in the increasingly tawdry dog and pony show that is politics. And, I do worry about the domestic implications of our increased militarized society, where it becomes almost heresy to question the words of anyone in uniform. Of course, one might argue that America was born, and our nationality developed through the war and the militarization of society. I think in large part our warring abroad did much to tone down our hatreds: race, religion, region, at home.

I'm not calling for mud-slinging or a return to Vietnam era mass demonization of soldiers[those poor fellows were often conscripted] but I grow sick of the "yes sir, you've worn the fatigure, my lord, forgive this 'humble creatur for persuming to know about foreign ventures."Forest for the trees, forest for the trees. We need both "i've been there" and bookish perspectives. And, I take everything I read on the internet with a grain of sand, unles you are talking about my website in which I prove conclusively that I am indeed the long lost Dauphin of France. I would also add, contractor or soldier alike, these guys are volunteers, not conscripts, and they do get paid, and benefits the rest of us don't. And, while many in uniform are bright enough to do other things, there are many, including many of my cousins, who would be digging ditches if they weren't serving.

My two cents, pull out yesterday. That problem ain't gonna be fixed over there, and we need to clean up shop over here. I ain't talking about health care, I mean an executive on steroids, incompetence on a gross level in the highes levels of state, a congress so obsessed with social red herrings they allow our infrastructure to rot, stagnating rural America (Crystal Methastan), and hey, did we ever fix those inner cities? Sometimes I feel like our leaders are so concerned with fixing things overseas because they are terrified of trying to fix things here. About the only good news in years is the consistently low approval ratings of everyone in guvment. My point is, I believe Buck et al are being honest for what they know. On the other hand, I'm just glad nobody is sending Erik Prince to fix my little corner of Appalachia.