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[Boing Boing] Blackwater beefs up air power, using name of obscure company ...: 500 or 600 bucks a day is good money but it doesnt really matter if you arent alive to spend it.Furthermore alot of these men got out of the military becaue of the polotics and corruption of the government/military so a DOD sponsored private military company isnt any diffrent than the military except less propoganda.These men fight for a paycheck yes but this is their skillset. More importantly they fight for each other on the battlefield a commom bond.

[Rick Steves' Travel as a Political Act] An Aging Continent Grapples with Immigration: Sailing in international waters at less than five knots, with no offensive armament, our ship was not a military threat to anyone." So you see, it's actually the Navy sailors themselves who claim this, are you calling them liars? "In an ongoing effort to reveal the truth about the attack, the USS Liberty Veterans Association has filed with the Secretary of the Army in the manner prescribed by law a detailed, fully documented Report of War Crimes describing the circumstances of the attack on our ship and evidence that it was a crime under international law.

[Business Pundit] The 25 Most Vicious Iraq War Profiteers | Business Pundit: It is called a strategic blunder and a monstrous injustice and sometimes even a patriotic mission, much to the. Furthermore”¦ ” American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well.

[The Agonist blogs] As the "Mexican Tet Offensive" Rages US Corporations Look to ...: This Strategy directs Federal agencies to increase coordination and information sharing with State and local law enforcement agencies, intensifies national efforts to interdict the southbound flow of weapons and bulk currency while stopping illicit contraband from being trafficked north, and calls for continued close collaboration with the Government of Mexico in efforts against the drug cartels. The Strategy is an important component of the Administration's national drug control policy and complements the Administration's comprehensive efforts to respond to threats along the border.

[Foreign Policy In Focus] Foreign Policy In Focus | Annotate This... President Bush's Sept ...: These local forces had been fighting alongside al-Qaeda against U.S. and Iraqi government troops previously, but al-Qaeda's extremist Islamist ideology and its massacres of civilians so alienated the populace that the local leaders have been willing to make a temporary alliance with U.S. forces to drive out the extremists, many of whom come from Saudi Arabia and other foreign countries. The hostility of those in the Anbar Salvation Council to the Iraqi government (which they see as dominated by pro-Iranian Shiite fundamentalists) as well as to the United States (which they see as a foreign occupier) raises the likelihood that once the al-Qaeda forces are marginalized, they will turn their guns once again on U.S. and Iraqi government forces.

[Antiwar.com Blog] U.S. Military Presence Worldwide « Antiwar.com Blog: But believe me someday it will be made clear to you that we here at Anti-war.com and all the vets in organizations like Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War are on the right side and hopefully you will then join us. Once your eyes have been opened to the facts it will be a shock and you will be outraged at what was done to you and what you have done.

[Countercurrents.org] On Supporting Our Troops Without Tokenism By Emily Spence: Yet, these countries are the locations in which many of the troops, with no protest on their parts, wind up again and again in the mistaken notion that somehow they are helping the USA by attacking, when commanded to do so, others who, rightfully, are defending their resource rich lands from US marauders, who have no right, legal or otherwise, to be there.

[Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Truthdig - Reports - Iraq Is the New Korea: ******** no and yes = he is/was/is a party-animal/moron/useful fool — a Bonesman like his dad, connected well enough to play the POTUS role — though unlike Pappy, not initiated to the inner-most circle, the nexus — puppeteers since the 9/11 coup — the shadow government of Iran-Contra legacy — Ollie North and associates took the fall (barely) for that (North wasn’t even close to the nexus) — the network was never touched; essentially the same network that has waged war on the 3rd world since Dullas decreed it and made damn sure that anyone who tried to stop it was dealt with (e.g.

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[Cafferty File] Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - In ...: Please don’t blame the freeing of the people of Iraq for causing our problems because most of the money spent by us on the war is returned to us in the form of military payroll, military armaments and other expenditures like Blackwater Inc.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » US Navy fires at Iranian boats in Persian ...: Furthermore, most DoD Defense Contractors in War Zones are allowed to provide for their own security, so it is not unlikely that the boat had armaments on-board, regardless of the Navy personnel presence on-board. And, via an ammendment to the UCMJ, contractors who go to War in support of or with the Military are subject to laws of the UCMJ and official Military Tribunal.

[Cafferty File] Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - What ...: piracy is a symptom but not the main problem.The achille heel of the problem is the abscence of strong central government in somalia.The Ethiopians sent their Army and paid huge sacrifice in terms of life and money.When they were crying out loud for help from the international community and particularly the USA and Europe, the answer was nothing.More over some of the congress men like Donald payne are trying hard to punish Ethiopia for trying to stabilize somalia.If there is Good will from USA the solution is to give resources to the somalia government and our parteners in the Region.

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