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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (354855)10/15/2007 5:49:08 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER   of 1577174
 
Re: ...the Sept. 16 massacre in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, where 17 Iraqis were killed by security forces from Blackwater USA, which had already been implicated in nearly 200 other shooting incidents since 2005. There has been no accountability. The State Department, Blackwater’s sugar daddy for most of its billion dollars in contracts, won’t even share its investigative findings with the United States military and the Iraqi government, both of which have deemed the killings criminal.

Looks like Blackwater's Plan B is to redeploy along the US-Mexico border... Do you think that trigger-happy contractors will be as messy with wetbacks as they've been with "sand n**gers"?

Still, the Defense Department recently tapped Blackwater to compete for parts of a five-year, $15 billion budget to fight terrorists with drug-trade ties. The U.S. government wants to use contractors to help its allies thwart drug trafficking and provide equipment, training and people. Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Co. are among those also in the running for the contracts.
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