[Badeye]

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.

[JennysCool]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

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!

[DeepThought42]

They can go fight pirates.

Blackwater: We’ll Fight Somalia’s Pirates

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/blackwater-well.html