Obama criticizes private Iraq guards

AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/06/07 | Jim Davenport - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, shares a laugh with Greenwood County, S.C., Council Woman, Edith Childs, right, whom he credited with giving him the idea for his popular 'Fire It Up,' campaign chant in a packed gymnasium at South Aiken High School, in Aiken, S.C., Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)

[golfisnr1]

Another Idiot that thinks he is a General.

[EagleUSA]

I guess his fax machine tied back to the DNC is running overtime. The talking points just keep coming in -— yes, bash anything about the war, even though it is clear you do not know a GD thing about it.

DemoRats - constantly making complete ass-clowns out of themselves. It’s easy. That is what they are, along with a host of other items.

[golfisnr1]

They protected him when he was in Iraq.

[SIDENET]

we can finally get back to facing the challenges we face here at home, the challenges you're grappling with every day."

Oh, yes. The soup lines, dust bowl, despair, and starvation that is America in 2007.

[TRY ONE]

Hey Osama Obama, the Military does not protect State Dept. VIP’s!

[Renderofveils]

"You've got young men and women signing up to serve, willing to spill blood for America. How could they be treated less well than private contractors?"

Can private contractors be treated less well than private contractors?

Props to the Blackwater folks from someone who has had his rear protected by them.

[bill1952]

>said private security contractors in Iraq are raising the risk for U.S. troops

Good Lord, what an idiot.

This guy is too stupid to know that he doesn’t know snot about what he is talking about.

People like this in charge would lead to the deaths of a whole lot of Americans.

[monkeycard]

Obama criticizes private Iraq guards

Hey Obama, why don't you go show everyone how it's done?

[sinanju]

The founder of Blackwater has made it clear in interviews and editorials; their guards are paid by the ($550 - $650) day, they have no retirement, no health plan and they work only when needed and fired if they don’t perform. Furthermore, there are only about 1,000 of them in Iraq at any one time.

They do the routine, boring, VIP/convoy guard/escort work rather than combat patrols and assault, and when (30 so far) they get killed there are no angry letters written to congressmen or cynical crocodile tears from same.

They are a bargain.

[JSDude1]

this guy is outrageous. He’ll never become President (V.P. maybe, though unfortunately.

[Oldexpat]

Boy are you right.
They are cheaper than normal troops..no real overhead and no long term commitment by the govt.
Hussein Osama Oboma is an idiot.

[Renderofveils]

This guy is too stupid to know that he doesn’t know snot about what he is talking about.

Just a hunch, but I imagine that quite a few Blackwater employees are America-loving patriots and soldiers. The difference between them and those that sign up for the military is that the Blackwater employees like to actually fight the enemy rather than be ordered by a pantychasing CiC to not fire on the enemy.

[kbennkc]

I got a problem with the crook in Illinois who served up the straw man sweetheart real estate deal . If she needs to Hillary can call in a favor for a sham indictment and drop this guy to the ground faster than Bill’s pants .

[Travis McGee]

Easy for him to say, now that he’s surrounded by a phalanx of govt provided secret service men toting submachine guns.

[sinanju]

Plus the fact that nearly all (I was surprised to learn there were only 1,000 or so) are former SEAL/Ranger/Recon so (while they need to be brought up to speed with certain tactics and equipment) they don’t need to be taught which end the buwwets come out of.

[kublia khan]

That’s so fast I had to read it twice.

[ladyjane]

Isn’t your name spelled Kubla?

[Son House]

The BlackWater Guards are brave, Obama best go prove himself along side them, or keep his ill informed comments to himself.