Blackwater up shit creek!
I should have saved this piece for Saturday Morning Confusion because I'm confused as hell.
Th U.S. has got itself a nice little war going on in Iraq and how or why they got there is incidental to the point I would like to make.
You got a war? You send in the army! Right?
Then what is this crap with private security forces?
First and most important is that an army would be a legal extension of a country's foreign policy and would be held accountable for their actions.
Any gang of hired mercenaries they send in have none of these restraints on them and they would have carte-blanche to do whatever they wanted.
Guess what!!!
That is exactly what is happening and not only the Iraqi's but the rest of the world community are not amused. Murder and general mayhem are the "special of the day" in Iraq now that Blackwater has been let loose on the population.
The methods of private security contractors in Iraq faced intensified scrutiny on Tuesday, as local police and government officials accused guards in a vehicle convoy of opening fire on a car and killing two Iraqi Christian women, then speeding away from the scene.
Tuesday's shooting occurred at a Baghdad intersection when the women's car approached the stopped convoy, said policeman Riyadh Majid, who witnessed the incident from a nearby checkpoint.
Majid told the Associated Press that the convoy guards threw a smoke bomb, apparently to warn the car against proceeding. The woman driving the car tried to stop, but was killed along with the passenger when two guards in the convoy opened fire, he said.
He said the convoy then raced away and Iraqi police came to collect the bodies and tow the blood-splattered car to the local police station.
Khalaf said initial findings showed the guards fired 19 bullets.
My second point is that the United States has an army, a navy, an air force, the marines, the coast guard, civil defense, reserves and all sorts of crazies running around with guns so why do they have to go out and get "hired guns" on top of it all?
If they are that desperate, let them go up to Michigan and round up a few right wing militia's and set them loose in Iraq. They couldn't do any worse than Blackwater.
What's that? Oh yea, right! Then the administration wouldn't be able to siphon any money to their right wing buddies in the security business.
Between Haliburton, Blackwater, Iraqi oil and God knows what else this whole thing is really getting out of hand.
But, you know what they say! Business is Business!
Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com
Th U.S. has got itself a nice little war going on in Iraq and how or why they got there is incidental to the point I would like to make.
You got a war? You send in the army! Right?
Then what is this crap with private security forces?
First and most important is that an army would be a legal extension of a country's foreign policy and would be held accountable for their actions.
Any gang of hired mercenaries they send in have none of these restraints on them and they would have carte-blanche to do whatever they wanted.
Guess what!!!
That is exactly what is happening and not only the Iraqi's but the rest of the world community are not amused. Murder and general mayhem are the "special of the day" in Iraq now that Blackwater has been let loose on the population.
The methods of private security contractors in Iraq faced intensified scrutiny on Tuesday, as local police and government officials accused guards in a vehicle convoy of opening fire on a car and killing two Iraqi Christian women, then speeding away from the scene.
Tuesday's shooting occurred at a Baghdad intersection when the women's car approached the stopped convoy, said policeman Riyadh Majid, who witnessed the incident from a nearby checkpoint.
Majid told the Associated Press that the convoy guards threw a smoke bomb, apparently to warn the car against proceeding. The woman driving the car tried to stop, but was killed along with the passenger when two guards in the convoy opened fire, he said.
He said the convoy then raced away and Iraqi police came to collect the bodies and tow the blood-splattered car to the local police station.
Khalaf said initial findings showed the guards fired 19 bullets.
"These are innocent people killed by people who have no heart or consciousness. The Iraqi people have no value to them," said a man who was part of a group of relatives gathered with a Christian priest at the local police station.The incident comes a day after the Iraqi government accused the U.S. security firm Blackwater of deliberately firing on civilians in a crowded Baghdad square last month, allegedly killing as many as 17 people. The firm insists its contractors were acting in self-defence.
My second point is that the United States has an army, a navy, an air force, the marines, the coast guard, civil defense, reserves and all sorts of crazies running around with guns so why do they have to go out and get "hired guns" on top of it all?
If they are that desperate, let them go up to Michigan and round up a few right wing militia's and set them loose in Iraq. They couldn't do any worse than Blackwater.
What's that? Oh yea, right! Then the administration wouldn't be able to siphon any money to their right wing buddies in the security business.
Between Haliburton, Blackwater, Iraqi oil and God knows what else this whole thing is really getting out of hand.
But, you know what they say! Business is Business!
Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com
Labels: blackwater, haliburton, iraq, mercinaries, middle east oil, security forces
posted by Allan W Janssen | 8:39 a.m.
2 Comments:
The claim that Blackwater is outside the law simply is not true. In fact, private military contractors are accountable several times over. First, they are accountable to the tightly-written terms of their State Department contracts. As a result of Congressional legislation, they are also accountable to FBI investigation and US criminal prosecution. Finally, the claim that they are immune from Iraqi prosecution is mostly false. Order 17, issued in 2004, stipulates that “Contractors shall be immune from Iraqi legal process with respect to acts performed by them pursuant to the terms and conditions of a Contract or any sub-contract thereto.” In other words, contractors getting drunk and causing trouble in their spare time get no immunity. This is quite different from national military forces, which are unequivicolly “immune from Iraqi legal process.” In this regard, Blackwater is actually MORE accountable than the US military.
My main concern is that if the US has an army, navey, air force, etc. why do they have to go outside the services and hire private security forces?
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