New Blackwater Iraq Scandal: Guns, Silencers and Dog Food

Blackwater is domestic enemy #1.  They are the hope for the christian fundamentalists to establish a military theocracy in the U.S. and we're supporting them with our tax dollars.  WTF?!

Did you see that their contracts went from 3 million to 500 million in under four years?   I don't like arming these pseudo-christian fools and murder lovers, I don't like it one bit.

sedna,

they ship weapons, and silencers in dog food bags???

What kind of company does this...and what does the military use silencers for?

ooohh...blackwater...a private company?  my feelers popped up...

Im gonna check them out if they have a website..

check on these guys, how long they been in business, location of their hq, and everything...

ftm,

I know you as relentlessly well informed so I can't tell if you're being funny.  Blackwater has a real in with the righties - they are a Christian fundamentalist private army being supported by our tax dollars.  Being "Christian" they are also murder-lovers, their contracts with the gov't have skyrocketed, along with KBR, during the Iraw war.

I don't like my taxes funding someone's religious belief.

I don't like my taxes funding psychopaths who love killing, unless those psychopaths are the proud members of the U.S. military and, theefore, accountable to the citizenry.

Sedna,

It's crazier than that.  A friend of mine is in the military and has been to Iraq 3 times.  He says the military personnel hate the contractors because the contractors get huge paychecks, the best equipment and can run away if they need to. 

Now, tell me, who runs a "war" effort this way?  It's as if there's an intentional demoralizing of the troops so that there will be a push for privatization (the righties have done this with the public schools and prisons).  For me it's just sickening that we treat our citizen soldiers this way - and it come straight from the top.  As far as I'm concerned the current administration needs to be taken  to task for abusing the soldiers.

Sorry for the rant - mistreating service personnel really sticks in my craw - 

Here's a good article on them (I seeded it awhile back under the same headline):  http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/10/5725_making_a_killin.html

And here's a lighthearted history, to make the facts more palatable, if that's possible: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=107312&title=Why-We-Fight-for-Money

bingo..

I found something..have you seen this dvd movie....

"Iraq for SALE"

THE  WAR PROFITEERS

iraqforsale.org

that one is about the corporations and big business of going to war...by Robert Greenwald...and blackwater, is one of the very companies on this dvd movie..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hhJSdmF_Uo

there is quite a bit on that movie right here on youtube.com...on civilian war contractors, and how they cut corners to save money, using ordinary people,

check out that trailer, via youtube..

I own that DVD  - one of the things that interested me was the truckers that were sent on runs.  They had nothing to haul but had to go through the steps so that KBR could collect cash.

you have that dvd movie?

I think Im going to get that one too..because Id really like to know why my nephew shipped out to fight karl rove and cheney's war.

thanks..

ftm,

Yep - it's a good one to have on DVD.  Of course, in my neck of the woods I'm considered a "radical" for having it, so I don't broadcast it too much.  Another thing that's interesting is that there are so many good documentaries out there and so few people are willing to take the time to watch them...must cut into "Amerocan Idol" or something.

Sedna,

Thanks for the links - I read the testimony.  There's no way in H*** any organization would run their business that way unless it's to deliberately skew paperwork.  In that case we are talking about malfeasance, at the very least, and deliberate calculated corruption at the worst.  A friend I went to B-School with had worked for a time with Bechtel, and he told the class of just one instance where the organization he worked for was ordered to bury hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of good tools and equipment and write it up as a loss.  So they got money on the back end and money on the front for charging the government a premium for new tools and equipment.

Privatization is a bad, bad move and is promulgated by criminals.

I'm sorry they brought contractors to the forest service, I've always thought we needed to better support that organization.  Moneyed interests and short term thinking fools have the power and have other ideas.  These are the domestic enemies and thinking citizens everywhere need to start standing up to them.  Christ, we give KBR and Halliburton untold billions and yet we can't support our teachers, researchers or scientists...makes no sense to me.

One thing I do know for sure - the business mind is a cowardly, selfish, and corrupt mind.  Anything it does to "give back to the community" is an outright sham.  Add to the fact that most of that mindset are also "Christian" and one knows before the first word is spoken that their ideas are abject stupidity.