Well, well, Blackwater, after ripping off the United States people with their extremely high priced Mercenary Forces, and getting U.S. troops killed from the blowback of their actions are now dropping their security details, apparently because it's bad for their business bottom line!!

Blackwater Plans Shift From Security Business
AP Interview: Blackwater plans shift from security contracting, blaming its notoriety in Iraq

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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And A Whole Host Of Charges!!

When we evaluate the facts, the use of private military contractors appears to have harmed, rather than helped, the counterinsurgency efforts of the U.S. mission in Iraq, going against our best doctrine and undermining critical efforts of our troops.

Since the arrival of the Bush Administration an evil has crept upon us and we hardly noticed.  But it's here now and we are going to have to deal with it.  It's the new Big Business - the Mercenary Army, or if you prefer the Corporate Army for hire.

Ok, folks, this is probably one of the most outrageous things I’ve come across in years. To put these families -- who’ve already given the lives of their loved ones in service to this immoral and illegal war -- through this legal purgatory is an egregious crime in and of itself.

Previously posted on the Young People For Blog.

They roam the streets of Baghdad and New Orleans without regrad to the law. They enforce and protect with impunity. They die forgotten, the live almost completely unknown, until now. I just finished reading an article on The Nation titled 'Bush's Shadow Army.' Who are they? What do they do? Where do they come from?

On March 31, 2004 the world was shocked as they witnessed images of four burned bodies hanging from a bridge in Fallujah, Iraq. We were told that these men were American contractors hired to secure food deliveries. The interesting thing was that the families of these men were actually told a different story.