..Rod Liddle looks like a faggot
Posted on 09/23/2007 10:02:00 AM PDT by goarmy
Blackwater is a private company that does the dirty work for America in various wars, both covert and those we know about all too well. It began only 10 years ago as a sort of cheerful paintball and shooting range in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina, but these days it has some 20,000 mercenaries on its books (the “whores of war”), not to mention a whole bunch of quasi-military aircraft, a military base, lots and lots of guns and connections with precisely the right people.
It was brought into existence by Erik Prince, a somewhat right-of-centre Roman Catholic zealot who hails from a singularly unlikable, filthy-rich Michigan dynasty. Prince has the ear of the White House and his firm has been rewarded with plenty of extraordinarily lucrative no-bid contracts for security work in, for example, Iraq – where Blackwater’s most prominent task was to look after the idiotic and fanatical L Paul Bremer III during his term as US administrator immediately after the war.
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How can security details made up of Blackwater USA's staff NOT be accountable to anyone? This is especially the case if they're guarding the US Ambassador to Iraq, the CINC, and Maliki, et al.? This doesn't make sense, and it is so obvious that to utter the phrase "not accountable to anyone" goes beyond disinformation, it's a LIE.
Is Erik Prince of the Prince Manufacturing dynasty ?
Since the Democrat Congress of the 1970’s under Sen. Frank Church’s direction cut the gonads off of the CIA regarding “dirty” foreign assignments, it was only a matter of time that something like Blackwater had to arise. The world is not perfect; we have had, continue to have and will always have enemies, both domestic and foreign, who want to end our way of life and positive influence in the world, no matter what the cost. If you’re going to play in the mud of the world, you’re going to get dirty, but you’ll survive. And the world is going to get a whole lot muddier, wait and see.
He kept saying Blackwater wasn’t accountable to anyone, which didn’t make sense to me either.
No agenda there. And 'singularly unlikable' is a new one. You'd think that term might be reserved for families like the Borgias.
Sounds like more Leftist whining. They won’t be happy until we’re all socialist, Spanish-speaking Moslems who require government permission - and forms filled out in triplicate - to fart.
“...forms filled out in triplicate - to fart.”
Thanks for making me laugh.
“Blackwater.” It’s just “Halliburton” by another name to the panty party and their prissy columnists.
Yes.
Wow! Just as soon as you forget how disgusting a self-righteous, preening, lefty pseudo-intellectual can be, along comes a review like this one. What a DWEEB!
Nah, I didn't think so.
“How can security details made up of Blackwater USA’s staff NOT be accountable to anyone?” It’s easy. Since our military has been, basically, cut in half, we need them. We need to rebuild our military which would mean there would be no need for them. I’d bet that we will see the draft come back in the near future. If Iran or Syria light off a nuke, any place in the world, especially here, all hell is going to break loose and we will not have any trained military to respond.
“Since our military has been, basically, cut in half, we need them. We need to rebuild our military which would mean there would be no need for them. I’d bet that we will see the draft come back in the near future.”
I believe that you’re missing the point. How can Blackwater USA be trusted with such high-profile security details without having someone responsible? The MSM’s desire to cast such contractors aside (see: Halliburton) and to demand that our military do these things does, indeed, stretch our guys thin. Our troops are doing their jobs by keeping the terrorists off-balance by hunting them down and killing them. This is much better than to have them do security, something that contractors (most with the military training greater than or equal to our troops in the field) are certainly capable of carrying out.
The draft is an entirely different issue, but I’m quite certain that if an enemy had the audacity to nuke us on our soil that military enlistment would be through the stratosphere and a draft wouldn’t be needed, but that’s supposition on my part.
The review is a bunch of hooey. These types of writers sure do froth at the mouth with righteous indignation that proves they’re just full of hot air and self-importance.
..Rod Liddle looks like a faggot
Widdow liddow is a journalist of some repute??? I’ve never heard of him. Has he been following the so called Black Hand around the war zones of this world? Does he have the nerve or the courage? I don’t think so.
Ooooops blackwater not black hand.
“where Blackwater’s most prominent task was to look after the idiotic and fanatical L Paul Bremer III during his term as US administrator immediately after the war”
I’m calling BS on this one.
The USMC, 2nd FAST and later, 3rd FAST provided security for that AO.
Brit twit......
I’m glad Blackwater is out there, I’ve been reading up on them and my son has had contact with them in Iraq quite a bit. A no holes-barred, well trained and experienced forward thinking group. Very professional, the writer is just another faggot liberal.
My brother just contracted with them.
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