The CNN article link is below and the video is here and an (additional video link is here)-
None of these Blackwater supporters would stand for an outside army to come into America and act as we do in Iraq. Clearly, if a private army of Iraqi soldiers were in America, and they shot randomly into a crowd of people the American government would take them and without habeas corpus hold them, try them, and enforce the law.
So now an American troop of private soldiers in Iraq has shot and killed many non-combatant civilians (all of this captured on video) and the Iraqi government has no authority to respond to this other than to revoke their ability to work in Iraq.
How has the U.S. made the Iraqi government so impotent as to be unable to enforce the law in their own land?
Also, tragically this is not just a Bush administration issue, this type of action has gone on since Clinton and before. Watch the video. I was disappointed to find out how long this thread of abuse has been going on with American taxpayers footing the bill.
Here is the article.
And this article is about how Blackwater focused on cost, not safety of the soldiers. This is why privatizing the military in a corrupted system like ours is not a good idea.
Scott~
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