Fully Loaded: Drunken Blackwater Guard Who Killed Iraqi Is Back In Iraq Thanks To State Dept.

The Gavel:

On Tuesday the Oversight Committee held a hearing on Blackwater, examining several incidents in Iraq involving the private security firm. One such incident involved a Blackwater employee who shot a guard of the Iraqi Vice President, apparently while drunk, and whether the Justice Department has truly been investigating as the State Department claims. The Blackwater employee was flown out of the Iraq within two days of the incident before a proper investigation could be conducted:

Today Chairman Henry Waxman wrote to Secretary of State Rice following reports that this Blackwater contractor, who was fired at the time, was hired by another private contractor to work in the region two months later. As Chairman Waxman writes in the letter, "Serious questions now exist about whether the State Department may have withheld from the U.S. Defense Department facts about this Blackwater contractor's shooting of the Iraqi guard that should have prevented his hiring to work on another contract in support of the Iraq War."

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Comments

[reece5309]

ALGORE: The text of NSD 26 blindly ignores the evidence already at the administration's disposal of Iraqi behavior in the past regarding human rights, terrorism, the use of chemical weapons, the pursuit of advanced weapons of mass destruction. Instead, it makes a heroic assumption of good behavior in the future on the basis of an interesting theory, namely, that Iraq would suddenly and completely change its ways out of a fear of economic and political sanctions. Well, it leaps from the page that George Bush, both as vice president and president, had done his utmost to make sure that no such sanctions would ever apply to Saddam Hussein. ... The question is unavoidable: Why should Saddam Hussein be at all concerned about a threat of action in the future from George Bush, the same man who had resolutely blocked any such action in the past? To the contrary, Saddam had every reason to assume that Bush would look the other way no matter he did. He had already launched poison gas attacks repeatedly, and Bush looked the other way. He had already conducted extensive terrorism activities, and Bush had looked the other way. He was already deeply involved in the effort to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and Bush knew it, but he looked the other way.

[LindaSmart50]

They are actually killing Americans with their actions of fomenting strife between Shiites and Sunnis. Thats their true mission...­.anything to keep the USA in Iraq.

They are evil scum and so is anyone who supports that.

[reece5309]

WOW!

[reece5309]

hows that goat workin out for ya

[Yasmine]

BLACK IS THE COLOR OF FASCISM ..........­...BALCKWA­TER'S PRINCE HAS MARKETING DREAMS FOR USA'S future.
creating a market for their services .
the MACHIAVELLIAN PRINCE ....ERICK PRINCE

[reece5309]

ALGORE: -- of front companies. Did all of this make any impression at all on President Bush? Did his judgment on foreign policy come into play when he was told that this nation, with a record of terrorism continuing was making a sustained, concerted effort to acquire weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, and biological? Well, evidently not.

[reece5309]

ALGORE: These are exact quotes from the memorandum to the administration. And most significant of all, in the same month, September of 1989, the CIA reported to secretary of state Baker and other top Bush administration officials that Iraq was clandestinely procuring nuclear weapons technology through a global network --

[LindaSmart50]

They are actually killing Americans with their actions of fomenting strife between Shiites and Sunnis. Thats their true mission...­.anything to keep the USA in Iraq.

They are evil scum and so is anyone who supports that.

[reece5309]

ALGORE: In January 1989 President George Bush was sworn in. Based on plentiful evidence, he had reason to know that his ongoing policy regarding Iraq was already malfunctioning badly. Just last week we learned of a memorandum written in March of that year, just two months after his inauguration, to secretary of state James Baker, as Baker prepared to meet with a senior Iraqi official in which the author of the memorandum noted that Iraq continued to cooperate with terrorists, that it was meddling in Lebanon, that it was working hard at chemical and biological weapons and new missiles. These are exact quotes --

[reece5309]

ALGORE: Throughout this period, Saddam's atrocities continued. In March of 1988, Saddam used poison gas on the Kurdish town of Halabja, brutally murdering some 5,000 innocent men, women, and children. And none of us can ever forget the pictures of their bodies, of parents trying to shield their infants, even in death --

[TLV]

From whom did he acquire the gas he ordered used to kill these people? He got them from the United States, bucko.

[reece5309]

ALGORE: Bush deserves heavy blame for intentionally concealing from the American people the clear nature of Saddam Hussein and his regime and for convincing himself that friendly relations with such a monster would be possible and for persisting in this effort far, far beyond the point of folly.

[lornejl]

Who is ALGORE, and why are you obsessing about him, has he hurt you in any way ?

[TLV]

When did he ever attempt to do this? That is a lie and you know it. Bush, when he wasn't "on vacation" concentrated fully on four things just before 9/11 - how to ruin Social Security, how to get Saddam Hussein, how to facilitate an oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan, and the "Star Wars" and missile defense program.

Bush announced while running for president that he wanted to be a war president. Who WANTS to be a war president when there is no war brewing besides a man who plans to conduct whatever war he pleases once he has the power to do so?

[TLV]

We know that Bush Sr. was sharing a huge take from oil revenue kickbacks with Saddam Hussein right up until the conflict with Kuwait began in 1991.

I wonder why Bush's son thought he should treat Saddam Hussein like a criminal when his father was obviously one of his closest friends? I wonder if Poppy cried when Hussein was hung.

[TLV]

On NPR yesterday the reporter said that the Blackwater employee is a former soldier who served in Iraq. He has a ten foot high fence surrounding his property in Washington state and is extremely hard to get in contact with.

Can you imagine having to live your whole life in hiding from those who respect the rule of law after doing this? I truly hope he is held accountable for his crimes, but if the Bush administration has anything to do with it, he will be spared prosecution. They love killers who do their bidding.

[LindaSmart50]

Thats one we now know the location of.

I want a list of ALL the terrorists and where they live.

[LIR]

That fence needs to come down, and fast...doe­s he have something to hide? Come from behind the bunker, asswipe, and face up to your crimes like a man....hid­ing behind Condi's skirts....­Goddamn PUSSY!

[reece5309]

Mark Twain: "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a brave and scarce man, hated and scorned. When the cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

[LindaSmart50]

Attacking, invading, raping, pillaging, abusing, destroying, and occupying a country that never, EVER, was a threat to the USA is not the actions of heroes but bully cowards.

They will pay in the future.

[LindaSmart50]

Furthermore, your idea of changing the world to you nasty fascist ways and trying to shove your crap culture on other peoples even if they don't want it is ,,,,,,,digusting and criminal.

[reece5309]

spoken like a true enemy of the state

[esquire07]

After the American Economy collapses, it will be Blackwater and otjer Private Armies rounding up and killing Americans in the streets.

Rome fell, the United States will fall. Depresion, Martial Law, Rioting.

http://www.therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=344&thisview=item

[MaryMullins]

Perhaps you are right.

I only hope they kill the FAT ass Nazis first.

[Ramirez]

That's more like it, Mary. Let it out. You know you want to.

[reece5309]

wrong

[Birdman]

Yes keep telling yourself that, just remeber GW can at anytime declare martial law any time he chooses for any reason, he has an executive order that he carfted that gives him the power to do so.

[lornejl]

Honestly, I think we should just trust Blackwater in every decision they make, and we should just support that.

[MaryMullins]

They are terrorists and I don't take kindly to terrorists.

If any of those Blackwater Iraqis ever come to this country I will fight them with anything I have available.

[MaryMullins]

And if my govt refuses to fight those terrorists of Blackwater than we will just form a group of people who WILL.

Bush is right, we must fight them wherever they are, and there is no doubt Blackwater is a terrorist organisation.

[reece5309]

they protect americans - why do you have a problem with that ?

[MaryMullins]

http://www.chris-floyd.com/fallujah/contract/

A must view.....

[MaryMullins]

http://www.cryptogon.com/

Slain Soldier Told Family to Investigate if She Died; She Was Found Dead on Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan
October 5th, 2007

Massachusetts National Guard Spc. Ciara Durkin told her family that something might happen to her after discovering, “something she didn’t like,” and she, “had raised concerns that had annoyed some people.”

She was in a finance related unit.

Afghanistan produces 95% of the world’s opium.

Coincidence?

I wonder if she connected the information to a dead [wo]man’s switch in some way…

Full text follows.

Via: Boston Herald:

The Quincy soldier mysteriously slain by a bullet to the head on a secure Afghanistan airbase feared something might happen to her after discovering “something she didn’t like,” her devastated family revealed.

Massachusetts National Guard Spc. Ciara Durkin, 30, was found with a single gunshot wound to her head behind a building at Bagram Airbase on Sept. 27.

“The last time she was home she said she had seen things that she didn’t like and she had raised concerns that had annoyed some people,” said Durkin’s sister Fiona Canavan, 44, of Quincy.

“She said, and I thought she was joking, that if anything happened to her we had to investigat­e.”

Canavan said she did not know what her baby sister had seen or whom she had told, and she rejected the notion that Durkin committed suicide. The military has not answered the family’s questions about her death, she added.

Publicly, the military will only say her death is under investigation.

Canavan said Durkin was openly gay, but she did not believe that had anything to do with her death.

Bay State political leaders are also demanding answers from the U.S. military’s top brass.

Sen. John F. Kerry has written to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates while Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and U.S. Rep. William D. Delahunt (D-Quincy) have contacted Army Secretary Pete Geren.

Kennedy said he has spoken to Geren to make sure the family’s concerns are known and addressed at the highest level while Delahunt wrote to

[MaryMullins]

http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id1.html

[MaryMullins]

AN AMERICAN P.O.W. -- IN AMERICA

By John McCarthy

This is true. It happened. And it happened in the United States of America and in Vietnam.

Continued suppression of the following facts and circumstances provides history with the opportunity to repeat itself. It already has once.

The United States Government claims that publication of this matter will be inimical to the National Security of our country. A more accurate phrase would be National Embarrassment. Stonewalling on this issue has worked for over thirty years. Stonewalling works. It is time to take down the wall.

On January 30, 1968, a Top Secret General Court-martial concluded that United States Army Special Forces Captain John McCarthy had murdered a

[reece5309]

Mark Twain: "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a brave and scarce man, hated and scorned. When the cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.