Hey Bunch,

Why you think a jury won't convict?

Seems to me with all the atmosphere of war crimes and crimes against humanity, these guys will be convicted.

Why quasi-mercenaries? Because they are an American company?

Call them what they are. Mercenary services. Guns for hire.

Well, they need to hurry up and convict them so they can be pardoned before Bush leaves office.

Ok..Im sure the masses will make a half witted attempt to draw me into an argument which I will not do after I post my OPINION. First of all The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 is so ridiculous and Im sitting here laughing at the lawmakers for that feeble minded law. Second I will admit that if innocent lives were lost for no good reason then the individuals responsible for that bloodshed should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, However there is this little thing called war going on and the individuals that were assigned to that convoy have their orders and their mission which was to protect whoever was riding in that convoy, Most reports say that the convoy came under attack and the men then came under attck returned fire resulting in 17 deaths..Witnesses state it was unprovoked and the convoy never came under fire, I have a problem with that because some of these men whom I know on a personal basis work for Blackwater and could have very well been involved in this incident, I have served with them during their time and my time in the Army, These men are so highly trained and intelligent that I find it hard to believe that they would just open fire on innocent civilians unless they were enaged and their convoy was in harms way, we also dont know who they were protecting and who was in that convoy so we have a conflicting story and this is one case I would not want to be involved with. I think this situation sucks, I feel its time to yank everybody out of Iraq and return home. Im sorry to want to defend these men from Blackwater but some of those men I call friends and If they are found guilty then they deserved it and I will feel bad for them but even worse for the innocent lives that were taken and taken for no good reason but these guys know better and are trained to be professionals so there is something more to this and we probably wont ever know...






[edit on 4-12-2008 by cmd18B]

These guys are scapegoats.
Whoever told them to fire needs to be prosecuted.

Good call!


As many good mercenaries/soliders exist in Iraq, bad ones do to.
Ones who rape and murder for no reason.

Its rare you hear about it,
but this case stuck out in my mind, as an unfortunate few who just snapped and killed anyone around them.

Crappy this situation exists for them to be there in the first place, but it doesnt matter. Murders murder in my mind!

In combat, or when engaged, slow is dead. Therefore fast is good, and for those who would survive, fast rage rules. If it moves, you kill it. It so happens that innocents get killed in crossfires. Bad luck.

But if you're serious about living, in that environment where these clowns dress in civilian clothes, then there can be no prosecution. Start hanging the guys caught starting firefights while in civilian clothes. They are to blame for these "civilian" deaths.

No prosecution. These prosecutors are apparently bored and don't have enough work to do. Relocate them to LA or New York.