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Official: Blackwater contract for Iraq not renewed
AP via SFGate ^
| 1/30/9
| MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 01/30/2009 11:57:13 AM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- A senior U.S. official says the State Department will not renew Blackwater Worldwide's contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blackwater; civiliancontractors; iraq; politicalcorrectness
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To: SmithL
Diplomats are like Doritos - they'll make more.
Hopefully by May the positions should be all filled with Obama lackeys.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:25:36 PM PST
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: Badeye
To a certain degree, I like the idea of having orgs like this to call on. I will say that I favor using troops who are under a lot more control than private groups are. I have nothing bad to say about Blackwater though.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:26:48 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: DoughtyOne
If the Hollywood elites were serious about The Sudan, and its province known as Darfur, they’d have hired Blackwater six years ago. Thousands of lives would have been saved.
Thats on George ‘In the closet’ Clooney and his jackals head as far as I’m concerned.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:28:42 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: Slump Tester
Diplomats are like Doritos - they'll make more.You owe me a new keyboard...LOL!
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:29:11 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: Badeye
Not only that, but if we had sent troops in, ole Georgie would have been damning the U.S. every step of the way. Look what happened when we tried to do the right thing in Somalia.
The left were furious that we went there. Warlords involved, what else could we do? There’s a total disconnect with folks like Clooney. We’ll always have to suffer fools like that.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:42:41 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: SmithL
There are other security companies.
Good ones.
And they've been working here through the Hell Years.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:45:14 PM PST
by
Allegra
( VOTE, Iraqis! Election Day, Saturday, January 31, 2009)
To: petro45acp
Probably just as well. The new SOFA has folks working over there paying local taxes, and (worst of all) providing all kinds of very personal information to a potentially hostile government. I don't have to do either of those things. Neither does anyone else I know.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:46:44 PM PST
by
Allegra
( VOTE, Iraqis! Election Day, Saturday, January 31, 2009)
To: Cheetahcat
plus, once you’ve sold your soul to the devil,(two for the price of one), i think
you are pretty indestructible.
To: Slump Tester
Hopefully by May the positions should be all filled with Obama lackeys. Oh, they were here before the election. The Embassy is crawling with liberals. I went over there (it was the old Presidential Palace embassy then) a couple of times before the election wearing my "GO SARAH GO" T-shirt that one of the Army officers gave me just to annoy those State folks.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:54:57 PM PST
by
Allegra
( VOTE, Iraqis! Election Day, Saturday, January 31, 2009)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
01/30/2009 1:03:24 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: SmithL
Is ACORN replacing Blackwater?
To: Badeye
Thanks. Take care Badeye.
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posted on
01/30/2009 1:04:48 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: DoughtyOne
Have a great weekend, DO.
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posted on
01/30/2009 1:05:11 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: SmithL
I'm sure the Blackwater operators will look at this as a month long R&R. After the first couple of casualties, then back to work.
I remember all the state employees whining about having to pull hazardous duty..... cause they might get hurt.
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posted on
01/30/2009 1:09:59 PM PST
by
erman
(Give a man a fire, warm him for one night. Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.)
To: SmithL
Political Correctness will get somebody killed. Hey, it's not our country. If Iraq refused to grant them a license to do business then there is nothing the U.S. can do about it.
To: Badeye
I will. My federal tax return was electronically deposited today. :-)
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posted on
01/30/2009 1:13:45 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: Badeye
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posted on
01/30/2009 1:13:58 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: DoughtyOne
Just in time for the Super Bowl party, eh?
timing is everything.
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posted on
01/30/2009 1:15:31 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: Badeye
I don’t think I can drink that much, but I’ll do what I can. :-)
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posted on
01/30/2009 1:16:35 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: Cheetahcat
hopefully it will be hillary! she would be a good learning curve. Those three words should never be used in the same sentence.
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posted on
01/30/2009 1:21:26 PM PST
by
Krodg
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