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2007-09-17 Iraq

Blackwater license being revoked in Iraq

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Posted by tu3031 2007-09-17 10:43|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 BASSEM MROUE
Where's ol' Bassem from, anyway? And what might be his/her interest in an Iraq in a state of "anarchy and civil war"?

Posted by eLarson 2007-09-17 11:02|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-09-17 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 So Iraq wants to basically ban security for diplomatic convoys? I bet Rove put them up to this.

My advice to the 'innocent' civilians caught in crossfire/wildfire surrounding ambushes - when you see an ambush being set up, get far away very fast and report it to authorities. If you don't, then expect the consequences to further cleanse the gene pool.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-17 11:08|| 2007-09-17 11:08|| Front Page Top

#3 When I hear Blackwater, I think of the 4 employees murdered by thugs in Fallujah.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-17 11:55|| 2007-09-17 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Bassem Mroue? Certainly an unbiased reporting source! I wish there was as much concern on the part of the Maliki government over AQ and other terrorists groups and Iran meddling. I also wish they would do more of the heavy lifting.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-17 12:01|| 2007-09-17 12:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Diyya.

Money will change hands, all be back to normal.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-09-17 12:41|| 2007-09-17 12:41|| Front Page Top

#6 "There have been so many innocent people they've killed over there, and they just keep doing it," said Katy Helvenston, the mother of late Blackwater contractor Steve Helvenston, who died in 2004 during the ambush in Fallujah. "They have just a callous disregard for life."

"Mother" Sheehan redux?

Posted by OyVey1 2007-09-17 13:48|| 2007-09-17 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Helvenston is now part of a lawsuit that accuses Blackwater of cutting corners that ultimately led to the death of her son and three others.

Mother Cha-Ching more likely...

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-17 13:49|| 2007-09-17 13:49|| Front Page Top

#8 No Blackwater - no more journalists leaving the Green Zone. Need to order up a few extra cases of Boodles and Martinia and Rossi, in that case.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-09-17 13:51|| 2007-09-17 13:51|| Front Page Top

#9 I googled our boy Bassem. Lebanese. Not too crazy about Jooos from the looks of it...

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-17 14:59|| 2007-09-17 14:59|| Front Page Top

#10 no State Department personnel were wounded or killed.

mission accomplished by Blackwater.

BASSEM's Gauloises stained brain compliments his Hate America and Jews bad breath... APs kind of guy or gal or it, you decide.

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Gubmint vs. Private security.

False comparative argument.

The private tools/entities in some instances have a greater potential to augment Gubmint assets and react faster than Gubmit.

The Critics:

One set are the vocal and political anti-war Hate America Groupies who are using Blackwater/ and Private Security as their anti-war pony to ride.

Another set are the World Wide competitors that lost most of the juicy contracts to Blackwater!

Legit shortcomings.. I'm sure there are short comings, I means except for me everyone else falls just a little bit short right! >:)

Finally what if you were a Nobel Peace Prize winner who's politics ran left of Jimmuh Carter.

~:)

Mkay, what would you do if you needed to hire a pilot and plane to fly your wife out of a NO Go Commercial flight area before she wound up becoming part of the SOUP?

Call al-Aska Paul!!

/lesson, think what you will abstractly..but when the shit hits the fan who ya goina call..

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-09-17 18:03|| 2007-09-17 18:03|| Front Page Top

#11 I know and prefer EODT (better compnay IMHO).

But if they want to pull Blackwater, they are going to lost all of their trustworthy security detail people. I hope Maliki likes eating IEDs.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-09-17 19:54|| 2007-09-17 19:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe we should have pulled Blackwater a LONG time ago.

It's about time we stopped having one ROE for the people guarding the diplomats and politicians and another for the regular army.

(Nothing personal about Blackwater, really. More about their employers, who want to use them to escape the bad consequences of their actions).

Unfortunately Maliki will probably be fine; the Iranians will find some rent-a-bodyguards for him.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-09-17 21:09|| 2007-09-17 21:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I hope Maliki likes eating IEDs.

I hope Maliki eats an IED. Him and his wannabe warlord pals represent a large part of the internal causes that prolong this war. All of them need to kack and be replaced with younger and more Westernized individuals who genuinely desire democracy. Maliki has no such desire.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-17 22:27|| 2007-09-17 22:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Seems like a good way to keep US bureaucrats from leaving the Green Zone and sniffing around Iraq's wimmen (Sorry Fred).

Posted by ed 2007-09-17 23:04|| 2007-09-17 23:04|| Front Page Top

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