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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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Political Correctness will get somebody killed.
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posted on
01/30/2009 11:57:13 AM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
hopefully it will be hillary! she would be a good learning curve.
To: SmithL
The Iragis decided not to renew Blackwaters license in operate in Iraq so it’s a moot point.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:00:20 PM PST
by
Smogger
(It's the WOT Stupid)
To: Smogger
No problem.....new company name....
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:01:13 PM PST
by
Wu
(Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
To: SmithL
I think that’s GREAT - now Wm Ayers can start his own “protection” firm for his buddy, Obama, and all the great “diplomats” of this admin (Mitchell, Holbrook, etc) can have a REAL, experienced group of ex-terrorists protecting them. It suits...
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:01:19 PM PST
by
matginzac
To: SmithL
Oh great.. what, are we going to have State Department analysts strap on some guns and protect VIPs, trucks, diplomats, etc now?
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:01:29 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: SmithL
This isn’t the big deal the MSM is making it out to be. It was inevitable the contract would end, and given the ‘surge’ worked, that made it this time around, rather than later.
Just a MSM hit piece in short. Blackwater’s financial future is assured, not doubt about it.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:03:01 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: SmithL
No problem. Obama is dialoging with the terrorists, so the diplomats no longer need protection.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:03:08 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(They moved my pie.)
To: LucyT; Calpernia
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:03:30 PM PST
by
hoosiermama
(Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
To: SmithL
We should start a betting pool, as to who the Dems will blame when diplomats get attacked in Iraq come June.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:06:50 PM PST
by
dirtboy
To: mnehrling
You need to read this Department of Defense
DIRECTIVE NUMBER 1404.10
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:07:58 PM PST
by
An Old Man
(Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.)
To: Badeye
Exactly, Badeye. It was going to happen anyway, so Obama is announcing this as a pander to his nutcase fringe — same as the troop withdrawl announcement and the Gitmo “closure.”
Obama wants to take credit for “ending the war” when all of these things were planned by the Bush Administration long ago.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:09:07 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(Internet Powerhouse)
To: JennysCool
Yep. No different that the strike teams I used to run around the country in the 1980’s. When the strike ends, the security teams disperse to their respective homes til the next one comes along.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:10:38 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: SmithL
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.
Nope, let state and DSS handle the heavy lifting from now, they have the black passports!
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:12:50 PM PST
by
petro45acp
(A government may create work, but only a free market creates jobs, careers, and growth!)
To: Badeye; All
Blackwater president Gary Jackson told the AP the company has plans to remove its nearly two dozen aircraft and 1,000 security contractors from Iraq within 72 hours of receiving such an order. "If they tell us to leave, we'll pack it up and go," Jackson said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090129/ap_on_re_us/ml_iraq_blackwater
I don't see this as an insurmountable task, even replacing these security agents with our troops if need be. I beleive Blackwater did a good job, and I do not think they are to blame for those 17 deaths. It's easy to call everyone a civilian when the combatants don't wear uniforms and blend in with the public. Every person our armed forces killed in Iraq could be called civilians. They may have been armed combatants too, but they were civilians. Of course you and I and the rest of the civilized world refers to them by their proper name, as terrorists. That doesn't mean the world's leading leftists will. It doesn't mean that those with an axe to grind in Iraq will. No, these are poor innocent civilians killed by the thuggish occupiers, the armed forces of the United States. Bull ---t!
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:14:59 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: Wu
No problem.....new company name....Whitewater?
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:18:51 PM PST
by
OCC
To: OCC
I was thinking the same thing...
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:19:56 PM PST
by
Wu
(Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
To: SmithL
Whoever takes over will either 1) hire BW’s people and rent the hardware, or 2) subcontract the work to BW.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:20:58 PM PST
by
gieriscm
(07 FFL / 02 SOT - www.extremefirepower.com)
To: DoughtyOne
Full agreement. They did a great job, and probably will be the company known for changing how wars are fought.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:22:47 PM PST
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: gussiefinknottle
hopefully it will be hillary! she would be a good learning curve.
She is good at ducking Sniper fire.
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posted on
01/30/2009 12:24:22 PM PST
by
Cheetahcat
(Osamabama the Wright kind of Racist!)
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