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Blackwater Casually Uses CS Gas - Military Terms It "Decidedly Uncool"

Apparently Blackwater casually used dangerous riot-control gases in Iraq: The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005,...

Posted by Justin Krebs on January 10, 2008 10:05 AM

Tags: Blackwater gas Iraq military
Blackwater: Even Mercenaries Think Those Guys Are Too Much

One of the story's of the year has to be Blackwater: the growth of a mercenary army that has been revealed by the events of '07 to act above the law. I cringe at the idea of these private armies,...

Posted by Justin Krebs on December 31, 2007 9:45 AM

Tags: Blackwater Iraq mercenaries
Man's Best Friend - Not Safe In Iraq

One more reason for us to call for an end to this senseless blunder in Iraq: these mercenaries are just out of control. This time, their latest casualty may not be quite as horrendous as innocent Iraqis or as their...

Posted by Justin Krebs on December 18, 2007 2:02 PM

Tags: Blackwater Iraq
Politics Is So Polarizing - Except When It's Not

The New York Times reported the following yesterday: Potrero, CA - The scandal in Iraq involving Blackwater, the private security firm, is a world away from this tiny town near the Mexican border. But five members of the community's planning...

Posted by Justin Krebs on December 12, 2007 11:53 AM

Tags: Blackwater election politics Protero
Blackwater Gets MORE Evil

Blackwater won't go quietly. That's the message we should all understand from the "dream team" they're putting together of high-power hyper-connected lawyers to defend their rights to be held unaccountable. As the headline inThe New York Times shouts: "Blackwater Mounts...

Posted by Justin Krebs on November 1, 2007 7:13 AM

Tags: Blackwater contractors
Blackwater Guards Involved in Civilian Shooting Promised Immunity

Well, this more or less speaks for itself: The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned. As a result, it will...

Posted by Justin Krebs on October 29, 2007 2:35 PM

Tags: Blackwater immunity iraq State department
...and Four Billion More Specific Reasons

We are paying contractors $4 billion every year to outsource this war for us. That's 4,000,000,000 dollars...nine zeroes. Earlier today we noted the $2.4 trillion we'll be spending over the next decade on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. These numbers...

Posted by Justin Krebs on October 24, 2007 9:22 AM

Tags: Blackwater Iraq military contractors
What do Blackwater, Ahmed Chalabi, and AT&T Have in Common?

The same PR firm, of course! More here from Raw Story. Seems that BKSH -- a subsidiary of corporate giant Burson-Marsteller -- previously represented Ahmed Chalabi (whose self-serving lies helped justify Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq) and helped coach Blackwater...

Posted by Will Easton on October 23, 2007 8:57 AM

Tags: AT&T Blackwater burson marsteller Chalabi
Laughing Liberally To Keep From Crying

Revelations about Blackwater make it clearer and clearer just how murky & muddy a mess they've made. Once you've taken a look, you may not want to drink the Blackwater, but how about a Liberal Shot of Political Whiskey, courtesy...

Posted by Justin Krebs on October 11, 2007 6:00 PM

Tags: Blackwater Iraq Laughing Liberally Lee Camp
Dose of Durst

The FBI plans to head up the Blackwater investigation in Iraq, during which they will be protected and escorted by...Blackwater. You can't makeup stuff like this. Oy. Do something to stop the madness in Iraq...then enjoy more Durst to...

Posted by Justin Krebs on October 4, 2007 2:30 PM

Tags: Blackwater Durst humor Iraq
Our Daily Dose of "Why Are We There?"

The committee staff report said Blackwater guards had engaged in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, and in the vast majority of cases the guards fired their weapons from moving vehicles without stopping to count the dead or assist...

Posted by Justin Krebs on October 2, 2007 8:10 AM

Tags: Blackwater Iraq
Every Day Another Reason

As if we needed to further convince you to tell Congress there can be no funding without a timeline for an exit from Iraq, yet more evidence that the President and his team can not be trusted without oversight, checks...

Posted by Justin Krebs on September 28, 2007 6:42 AM

Tags: Blackwater Bush Iraq military contractors Paul Krugman

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