Mercenaries need to be eliminated, period.
No more warring, and no more WAR-PROFITEERING!!!!
"Blackwater Inquiry Blocked by State Dept., Official Says" by JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 — The Democratic chairman of a House committee complained Tuesday that the State Department was blocking his panel’s efforts to investigate the private security firm Blackwater USA and its operations in Iraq.
The department described the situation as a “misunderstanding.”
In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, wrote that the State Department had prevented Blackwater from cooperating.
“Blackwater has informed the committee that a State Department official directed Blackwater not to provide documents relevant to the committee’s investigation into the company’s activities in Iraq without the prior written approval of the State Department,” Mr. Waxman’s letter stated. The letter was made available to the news media on Tuesday.
In response, a State Department statement late Tuesday said: “There seems to be some misunderstanding with regard to this matter. All information requested by the committee has been or is in the process of being provided.”
The statement added: “Blackwater has been informed that the State Department has no objection to it providing information to the committee. We have offered to make available for testimony those officials in the best position to respond to the specific issues the committee has raised.”
Blackwater, the private contractor that provides security for American diplomats in Baghdad, has come under intense scrutiny since a Sept. 16 shooting involving Blackwater guards in which at least 11 Iraqis were killed.
[Actually, it was about 20!!! Why low ball, Times?]
And why are Blackwater killers immune from prosecution and accountability?
"Contractors have immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law because of a directive issued by American occupation authorities in 2004. Nor are Blackwater’s contractors subject to United States military law (AP)."
[KILLING with IMPUNITY?
Aaaaah, the SWEET SHITSTINK of Bush's "LIBERATION!"]
