Blackwatergate

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03-21-2007, 08:45 AM
uglymoney

Blackwatergate

Quoted from Music, Books, Movies - NPR - Fresh Air Fans

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Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Oh shit, that endeared me to her at that point. She's fucking great. Probably the only interviewer in the murk of media who would call out an asshole like that.

I'm listening to yesterday's right now about our wonderful private military contractor, Blackwater Inc.. Fascinating stuff.

Umm, yeah. I listened to that too. I'm buying that book now. Very scary stuff. Its not suprising that Blackwater was founded by a Bush connected right wing christian wacko, but its extremely frightening.

This sort of things just lights my fire. Private American armies with Christian agenda's being sent to the worlds volatile Muslim regions on no bid contracts. Unbelievable.

Our president and his friends are crooked whack jobs of the highest order. Funneling my tax money into radical gun toting Christian organizations.

http://www.blackwaterbook.com/

Fresh Air Interview An excellent piece, well worth the listen. Window Media Player

Synopsis from the books author Jeremy Scahill

Worst president ever. Discuss.
03-21-2007, 09:26 AM
lemon boy

If you ever get the chance, watch the show "Soldiers For Hire" about Executive Outcomes in Angola. Fascinating look at modern mercinaries.

It is not a good/bad view of them, very grey. Basically for 20M/year about a hundred guys (given basically a free hand to act) did the job that 18,000 UN peacekeepers failed to do after EO was kicked out.
03-21-2007, 09:29 AM
El Kanone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3zPt...elated&search=
03-21-2007, 09:33 AM
uglymoney

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Originally Posted by El Kanone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3zPt...elated&search=
03-21-2007, 11:43 AM
Kevo

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Originally Posted by lemon boy

If you ever get the chance, watch the show "Soldiers For Hire" about Executive Outcomes in Angola. Fascinating look at modern mercinaries.

It is not a good/bad view of them, very grey. Basically for 20M/year about a hundred guys (given basically a free hand to act) did the job that 18,000 UN peacekeepers failed to do after EO was kicked out.

Do you have a link to info on this? Or is it more of a special interest rental?
03-21-2007, 11:54 AM
lemon boy

http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=73156

best I can do I'm afraid.
03-21-2007, 12:04 PM
ArmadaBC

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Originally Posted by Kevo

Do you have a link to info on this? Or is it more of a special interest rental?

I only found it at a specialty type store after reading about EO in World's Most Dangerous Places. Kind of sucks that they never got paid but what do you expect?
03-21-2007, 03:52 PM
leroy jenkins

This shit is fucking scary.

On the one hand, private contracters make economic sense, I get that. ON the other hand, thier lack of responsibilty to report to any government directly, the fact that most people have no idea what they're doing, and the whole fundamentalist christian connection just seem like something out of a far fetched movie.
03-22-2007, 08:28 AM
Tye 1on

2 parts that got me was them basically commanding US troops, and then showing up in unplated black vehicles in full combat mode in New Orleans post-Katrina. Hope the lawsuit goes thru, right now they are apparently both exempt from US law [via a piece of the 'patriot' act] and from the Code of Military Justice. Fuckers...