Posted on 10/23/2014 9:47:00 AM PDT by navysealdad
After marathon deliberations, a federal jury found four ex-Blackwater Worldwide contractors guilty Wednesday in a deadly 2007 mass shooting in Baghdad's Nusoor Square. Nicholas Slatten, 30, of Sparta, Tennessee, the team's sniper, was found guilty of first-degree murder while armed in the slaying of the river of a white Kia sedan in the Baghdad traffic circle. Prosecutors said Slatten kicked off the incident when he opened fire.
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So what happens when the US government can no longer find contractors to hire?
If politics were reversed this would be front page and used against Bush or conservatives. All I hear are crickets.
We send our men and women into war zones, with guns, and when they use them, they are tried for murder back in the states. Doesn’t matter if they are contractors, innocents die on both sides, it’s war.
What a jury, certainly not jury of piers.
Had they called in an air strike the same people would be dead, but these guys would not be on trial.
‘What a jury, certainly not jury of PIERS.’
So are you saying that this jury should go pound sand?
Yes, exactly, which underlines the huge liability of being a non-state actor in a war zone...even if youre hired as a state surrogate. Really, its a case of who’s too big to prosecute....ie who can live above the law.
It already was used against Bush big time back in 2007.
Back then the left had already vilified Blackwater even before the Nusoor Square incident. It was just as big when it happened as Abu Ghraib (another witch hunt some might recall).
When the judge threw out the original Blackwater indictment in December 2009 it was still a big deal in the news as Blackwater was still fresh in people’s memories (even though Bush had been gone for a year).
Now in 2014 when the left has had it’s way and the majority of Iraq and the chemicals Saddam left has fallen to ISIS, indeed it’s just crickets.
Too bad the jury couldn’t see that handing the enemy yet another victory only rubs salt in the wounds.
We shouldn’t be privatizing this. We should be doing it ourselves. THIS is what you get with privatization.
And then there’s that murder thing.
Are you saying these things never happen with government troops?
“So are you saying that this jury should go pound sand?”
I am saying not likely if even possible to find a jury that’s been in these guys shoes. You bring a case from overseas into our secular court system, you won’t find a jury that can relate.
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