Related news articles:
“Blackwater Chairman Defends His Company”
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/10/03/ap/headlines/d8s1frh03.txt
“Blackwater terminated 122 security personnel for weapons violations, drugs, alcohol”
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/10/02/news/nation/7_22_5210_1_07.txt
The bottom line (in more ways than one) is that the US Military can't do the job they're doing in Iraq and elsewhere without Blackwater. Thank all the RATs who cut the active military for all those years since the Peanut man was in the White House.