We earlier reported that the Iraqi Interior Ministry--unlike those paragons of virtue at Blackwater--is claiming that the Blackwater employees now tentatively scheduled to be banned from Iraq started the firefight.
Well, the victims provide their own harrowing tale of being fired upon by jacked up mercs:
As we turned back they opened fire on all cars from behind. The bullets are in my back. Withing two minutes the helicopters arrived. They started firing randomly at citizens. No one fired at Blackwater. They were not attacked by gunman. They were not targeted.
So yeah, I'm glad to know that Blackwater roamed freely in post-Katrina New Orleans and might set up a base in California (watch the vide and go sign the Courage Campaign's petition to stop the latter!).
(h/t Crooks & Liars)
Reply to Joseph:
If the military could do what Blackwater does, it would.
All fields, including Universities, through doctorate programs, require people to kiss the ring of those who went and are before them. This is what British colonies all do, and that is what we, the Australians, and Canadians all are. Just British colonies accepting the pecking order and hierarchy of modern systems of institutionalization, and vice-versa.
No matter what your job is Joe, you do the same thing, and just because you do it cheaper, does not make you more honest or upright.
You can quit doing this anytime you wish, but you will be out of a job and in the soup-lines in no time. Explain that to your friends and family, and see how long they listen for the punch line, no matter how true your convictions are.
Our entire foriegn policy has been run like a mafia for the past fifty years. Read, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. Then whine back to your party's dish and beg for some more free food. They will gladly slop you like the hog you are, but you will have to kiss the ring and shit on some peasants for getting the slop.
Bon' appetitt
Silly Wabbitt