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They've been mercenaries from the start, and frankly I'm with Kos on them: Fuck Blackwater.  They're dangerous, and they've caused nothing but problems, to the surprise of no one, since they don't answer to anyone.

And this giveaway to private armies is a slap in the face to our soldiers.  They're paid three to six times what our soldiers are paid to make life even more difficult for them.  It's disgusting.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 01:28:37 PM EST
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I tend to agree in terms of common usage.

This was "my" topic for my international law class.  I learned a lot about the private military industry researching the paper I presented in that class.  Someday I might try to rework it into something publishable.

The importance of the legal definition is that if Blackwater is there in Georgia it undercuts the distinction between lawful and unlawful combatants that the Bush administration wants to make.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 04:05:17 PM EST
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