No one wants their last words to be "Oh my God! The old gypsy woman was right..."
Well at least one of the first things Obama should do come January 21 is kill all the Blackwater contracts
Blackwater’s Iraq contract was extended in April, but the company is by no means betting the house on its long-term presence there. While the firm is quietly maintaining its Iraq work, it is aggressively pursuing other business opportunities.
In September it was revealed that Blackwater had been “tapped” by the Pentagon’s Counter Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office to compete for a share of a five-year, $15 billion budget “to fight terrorists with drug-trade ties.” According to the Army Times, the contract “could include antidrug technologies and equipment, special vehicles and aircraft, communications, security training, pilot training, geographic information systems and in-field support.” A spokesperson for another company bidding for the work said that “80 percent of the work will be overseas.” As Richard Douglas, a deputy assistant secretary of defense, explained, “The fact is, we use Blackwater to do a lot of our training of counternarcotics police in Afghanistan. I have to say that Blackwater has done a very good job.”
In every aspect of the war on liberty in the US if you turn over a rock you’re sure to find that ultra right wing Christian mercenary company Blackwater. It’s time to put those bastards out of business. Read the whole article in The Nation but a warning, take some Gravol® first to avoid puking
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Yes, the CONTRACTS at LEAST… and more if there’s time.
M. Douglas Wray 
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7:42 pm 6/14/2008