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October 3, 2007: Iraqis are upset with Blackwater International, the security firm that provides protection for American diplomats (and many other VIPs) when they travel about. Blackwater recruits experienced military veterans, especially commandos, to do the job. When Blackwater is attacked, they attack right back. Blackwater’s aggressiveness and competence is well known in Baghdad, and Iraqi police and civilians stay out of the way. As a result, Blackwater has never lost any of the State Department people they have escorted. But 30 Blackwater personnel have been killed, along with hundreds of Iraqis (armed and unarmed, the terrorist attacks often use civilians for cover). American politicians, who are opposed to the Iraq war, are joining in to attack Blackwater, and accuse it of misbehavior. The State Department remains silent, but is unwilling to give up Blackwater. There are enough experienced people inside the State Department who understand that Blackwater is professional and effective, and you can’t beat a perfect record when it comes to security. Considering what high value targets U.S. diplomats are, and the success of Blackwater in defeating hundreds of attacks, the State Department cannot afford to abandon Blackwater. But the diplomats cannot afford to openly defend Blackwater either, lest they anger Democratic politicians who run Congress. So the media circus will play out, and life goes on.

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/iraq/articles/20071003.aspx

I’m not criticizing you

But could you hit the space for paragraphs so your comment is easier to read

It looks like my first emails I sent out on my WebTV in early 2001

Good post enyhoo

Keep it up!

Blackwater is very good at its job--and Defeatocrats must undo that if they can.

In my view, Blackwater can be more effective than our own forces for the simple fact that heretofore there has not been the same micromanaging by risk-averse remf JAGS and other parasitic invertebrates.

It was a bad sign when Bush put in Gates who in 2004 coauthored with Zbigniew Brzezinski the CFR paper Iran: Time For A New Approach which recommends negotiations with the very Islamist Republic which kills our people as we blog, which is racing towards the nuclear capability with which to attack our ally Israel and our own forces in the region--not to mention to raise the body count of the next islamofascist attack on conus by orders of magnitude.

Condoleeza Rice should resign and go manage a football league.

Now is not the time for a nanny to ride along with Blackwater.

Now is the time to actually wage the war being waged against us.

And the right place for such traitors as Nostrilitis and his ambulance-chasing butt boy is in the Yuri I. Nosenko Suite in the fourth sub-basement.