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Purveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:05 PM Original message |
Feds Probe Blackwater Weapons Smuggling |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. Rec'd. Their salaries apparently weren't enough, or was this done on behalf |
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dansolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 09:51 AM Response to Reply #1 |
31. Not necessarily on behalf of the government |
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MikeNearMcChord (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. Blackwater needs to be abolished |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. You are right on the legalized organizied thuggery.... |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 09:34 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. an organized crime outfit Populated by "War Criminals" |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. Blackwater needs "insurgents". |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. bingo |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 09:24 AM Response to Reply #4 |
27. the saddest day in the Miltary industrial complex history was when the USSR |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 10:03 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Yep. I remember it well. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. k&r |
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zabet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
7. I have always suspected BW's operations were |
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stlsaxman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 12:18 PM Response to Reply #7 |
39. Testamony regarding Blackwater here- MUST SEE |
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Klukie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
8. k&r |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
9. Counter-terrorism MIHOP! |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
10. Creating their own job security? |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
11. Blackwater needs to be abolished and owners exiled |
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Sagan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
12. Treason! Selling weapons to terrorists?? |
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Baby Snooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
13. Probably leftovers... |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
14. Please - I'd love to see this investigation reach all the way |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
15. they are probably all packing as we speak to go to Iran |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
16. GOOD GRIEF!!!! K&R |
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1776Forever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
17. It is hard to believe it but to most of us it is the terrible horrid truth! |
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wildbilln864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
18. K&R! n/t |
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budibudinski (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. Explains why Condi made that emergency overnight trip ..damage control |
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susanna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. Now it gets fishy... |
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DLnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 04:16 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Good point, but another equally possible explanation: |
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susanna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 10:47 AM Response to Reply #24 |
35. Excellent point. |
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spindrifter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 03:19 AM Response to Original message |
21. Oh, I wouldn't abolish BW-- |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 03:41 AM Response to Original message |
22. hmmmm |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 03:44 AM Response to Original message |
23. Gladly recommended. The hell with exile. Blackwater's founders need |
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budibudinski (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
25. Their Govt contract needs to be rescinded immediately. |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 09:26 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. you mean the secret, no bid, national security contract |
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freefall (617 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 09:34 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. I googled "value of Blackwater contracts" and got several hits. |
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budibudinski (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 10:26 PM Response to Reply #29 |
48. Thank You for making you findings available for us DUers... |
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Mister Ed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
26. Rec'd. This is the reallity of the "free-market utopia". n/t |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
33. K&R....I'm surprised this is being investigated...Could Blackwater be the culprit and not Iran? |
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SnowGoose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
34. And if we bomb Iran for supposedly doing the same thing... |
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Myrina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
36. "The Lord of War" should be required viewing ... |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
37. Corruption permeates every corner of our government and military. |
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file83 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 11:20 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Exactly - they are all criminals. n/t |
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seafan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
40. Feds probe Blackwater weapons shipments |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 03:25 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Why in the Hell do we allow them to operate on US soil |
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seafan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 03:25 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. A bit more from the McClatchy piece: |
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Vilis Veritas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 03:25 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Aww...come on. Just call Ollie North up to the hill... |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 03:25 PM Response to Reply #40 |
44. America don't need no steenkin Christofascist war profiteering republicons |
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HuffleClaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
45. ok, first of all the media has got to stop calling them 'contractors' |
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emlev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
46. You expected people willing to kill for $ wouldn't smuggle weapons for $? |
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spag68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
47. Check the BBC |
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