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JUNE 13, 2012 5:19PM

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A few thoughts and thank you videos from the Iraqis to Obama and all those who continue to parrot his words; "we're out of Iraq."
The first video, identified as “Baghdad, Iraq, May–September 2005,” showed Blackwater convoys racing through town. Suddenly, the door of a Blackwater SUV opened and a rifle fired at passing traffic. “They opened the door,” my companion said. “You should never break the seal.

The next tape had been taken by a camera in the turret of an armored vehicle. An M4A1 fired from the turret at cars that had stopped to let the convoy pass. Whoever was firing the gun did so enthusiastically and often, sending rounds into parked cars and an overhead bridge. Another sequence showed a contractor vehicle rear-ending a car, shattering its back windshield.

The footage continued. A Humvee smashed into a car to move it out of the way. Guards swore at passersby. More armored vehicles smashed into civilian cars

Blackwater helicopters shoot at targets below in a Baghdad street.

Driving along a wide boulevard in Baghdad, the lead vehicle swerved close to the curb of a traffic island. A woman in a black full-length burka began to cross the street. The vehicle struck the woman and knocked her unconscious body into the gutter. The cars slowed for a moment, but did not stop, nor did they even determine whether the victim was dead or alive. A voice in the car taking the video said, “Oh, my God!” Yet no one was heard on the radio requesting help for her. Most sickeningly, the sequence had been set to an AC/DC song, whose pounding, metallic chorus declared: “You’ve been… thunderstruck

Harper's Magazine http://harpers.org/archive/2012/04/hbc-90008515

These are ancient videos and Blackwater is no longer you say? Blackwater met its demise? Well, if you think that's fact, here's a reality check for you; Blackwater, after its "run-in with the law" over its behavior in Iraq

did what many U.S. corporations do after they've been "outed by the law," and assumed a new identity known as Xe and appointed John Ashcroft as their "Ethics Watchdog." As we know all too well a single reboot is often inadequate and since many saw through this farce for what it was, they've once again rebranded as Academi and to get their business back to the main stream acceptance as murderers for hire, they quietly bought another security firm, International Development Solutions, and took over its State Department’s $10 billion World Protective Services contract, from which their predecessor Blackwater was removed years ago.

So, we've gone full circle, from King George II and Blackwater to Obama and Academi; the names have all been changed to protect kill the innocent and to fool the public, but make no mistake, their mission remains the same and Obama can no longer continue to use his favored phrase "this was brought about by the previous administration."

America is out of Iraq? Hardly! We went there to stay and we'll do so by invasion or by contract and Barack Obama and his band of merry mercenaries are leading the way, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Iran, to Syria to Egypt. But! It's those dirty little mercenaries doing that, not the current administration. Right?

In this case, the matter is most definitely not "Academic" rather it is Academi.

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Neither is or was an ideal situation, if better than Saddam and the Taliban would be my response.

Don Rich

June 13, 2012 06:17 PM

The contrast between our posts today is poignant. In yours, there is danger brought by a helicopter. In mine, salvation for a forest.
:(
So sad
R

Poor Woman

June 13, 2012 07:04 PM

Got to extract ourselves from all this BS ASAP... we've lost the hearts and minds and it's only a matter of time before we lose the war. Don't know how to do it, just sayin'.

jmac1949

June 13, 2012 08:15 PM

I'll bet my bottom dollar that there are plenty in the administration who wish to hell they'd left Saddam in control of Iraq. He had been bought before by the US and he could have been bought again for far, far less than that stupidest of stupid wars has cost.

But then those poor, poor American arms makers wouldn't have been able to afford their 2nd yacht.........;-(
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skypixie0

June 13, 2012 09:14 PM

Incredible, Boomer Bob. Just incredible and so, so sad. What has the world come to?

Rated with a heavy ♥

FusunA

June 13, 2012 09:17 PM

Don - I have to agree; the Taliban is probably the nastiest organization since the Khmer Rouge and Saddam was a despot of major proportions, but sadly our fingerprints are found all over the creation of both. It’s almost as though we keep screwing around in other countries, moving them around like chess pieces only to restart the game the second we realize we fucked up from the first move.

Woman – it is interesting isn’t it? It’s beyond shameful that our government doesn’t redirect resources to taking care of our country as they should rather than destroying others.

Jmac – it’s light years beyond me too and that’s always the conundrum, isn’t it; those who see the problems want to fix them, but don’t know how and those who refuse to see the problems know how, but don’t want to fix them.

Sky – it is indeed about arms production and has been the moment manufacturers realized the easy contracts with the government and massive profits available in their war machines. In the long, long list since the end of WWII, there hasn’t been even one justifiable war; from Korea to Afghanistan it’s about keeping the war machine well oiled.

Fusun – I was thinking the same thing as I posted this; it’s all become so wearisome and disheartening to read and write about it, I sometimes think that ignoring it for my own well-being would be better, but too many already do that.

Boomer Bob

June 14, 2012 12:02 AM

Actually I would include World War II as an unjustifiable war. If it hadn't been for Ford, IBM, Alcoa and other members of the National Association of Manufacturers funding and arming Hitler, there would have been no fascist movement to overrun Europe.

Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

June 14, 2012 12:15 AM

[r] bob, wow!!! like watching collateral murder wikileaks video. all a big video game for the hyped-up macho men. blackwater is one of the creepiest entities that just keeps getting money. like halliburton. some of us still think bad publicity will result in accountability and the ending of such war criminality. dream on. thanks for this. there are so many fresh hells, but the old toxic ones burn and ever worsen. obama in his gangsta prez mode is not gonna do anything about the amoral viciousness. who needs a mafia. you got the us govt and their shady cronies.
best, libby

libbyliberalnyc

June 14, 2012 04:41 AM

Even though he dislikes me I agree with Skypixel.

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Algis Kemezys

June 26, 2012 10:39 AM

Horrific! I was only vaguely aware of Academi's current activities. They are remarkably skillful in covering their tracks. The videos are a nightmare. A war crime by any other name...

Rated.