Blackwater, the White House’s Corporate Army

Disband the armed thugs before Bush/Cheney get any more out of control. These two shameless, brazen, war-profiteers need to be neutered and have their powers taken away from them before their power hungry, blind-ambition for more corporate profits mires us in a war with Iran. They have already created a ‘military’ force that outnumbers the U.S. military by nearly 20,000 that has proven itself to be out of control.

Mercenaries are paid to do one thing, to enforce the will of whoever owns their contract. Blackwater is paid to do the bidding of the Bush/Cheney White House. They are not bound by our constitution, they do not fight to uphold our constitution. They are freelance killers. They do not feel the need to answer to the American public or American policies. By design, they are not governed by the same rules that a governments military is.

The White House has decided that since they cannot get the necessary approval to further their financial interests as they want in Iraq then they will circumvent Congress and hire their own corporate army. They are using U.S. tax dollars to buy the allegiance of these hired guns.

This administration has committed enough illegal and reprehensible acts, from making up lies in order to force our military to do pre-emptive strikes against sovereign nations to hiring a private militia to keep the citizenry of that nation in check and protect their own financial interests.

While their cronies are stuffing their bank accounts in the name of spreading democracy our young men and women are giving their lives, and the survivors are given substandard medical care, insufficient compensation, and worthless medals for their patriotism.

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney do not give one good damn about the number of military personnel it takes to keep their business interests in the black and they prove it by demanding more and more of our tax dollars to fund their latest corporate venture. They fire commanding generals until they find one who will step in line with their views to be used as a mouthpiece to tell the world that we cannot stop now or all will be lost.

What would be lost is this administration’s reason for being in Iraq. That is, to set up military bases to protect the oil and gas shipping lanes to the U.S. Any country that threatens that flow, such as Iran, is seen as a threat to their profits. This is where Bush/Cheney focus their attention. If the Iranian threat was lessened or, even better, in their view, eliminated, then Bush/Cheney and their cronies would almost certainly be guaranteed access, for years to come, to the wealth that these natural resources provide. Don’t think for a minute they would attack Iran to protect our troops. They will do it to protect their interests.

If they could get the American people behind an attack on Iran, then Bush/Cheney and their cohorts could have military bases on both sides of the Persian Gulf virtually guaranteeing and uninterruptible flow of their profits.

I have never heard of any corporation yet who will willingly give up a lucrative contract. Iraq has become more lucrative than even Bush/Cheney imagined. Now that the prospect of having protection from both sides of the Persian Gulf is within reach, well, their greed just simply will not allow them to back off now. If they have to fabricate a story about Iran supplying arms to Iraqi insurgents, then they will do so.

The overwhelming majority of this country wants us out of Iraq, we want us out of Afghanistan, we do not want to go to war with Iran, but Bush/Cheney has already proven they care very little what the American people want. This Congress, this group of spineless, manipulating, self-serving, cowards that we have empowered to be our voices to represent our will either refuse to do anything about it or are simply ineffective to do anything.

I do not understand the sway that this bumbling, amateur politician from Texas and this shifty, distrustful, trigger happy, corporate tyrant have over Congress.

George W. Bush’s approval rating is at an all time low at 31% as of today. Even members of his own party are breaking away from him. Yet he is still in office. What the hell does it take for him to get kicked out? President Clinton was impeached for a blow job! President Bush started an illegal war based on lies costing untold suffering and damages in deaths, injuries, and property not to mention the damage he has caused in foreign relations and he stays in! It is unfathomable how much and what the public will accept from its leaders. I hope all of you realize this is settings precedents for future administrations. Each new low that is tolerated becomes acceptable practice.

This is why this country’s morals and ethics have diminished into the low state it is currently in, because the population will not rise up and kick his ass out. We get the government we deserve by not voting, by not standing up for what we want. There are so many people out there who currently thinks that their vote doesn’t count that if they all did, by some miracle, get out and vote they would become the new majority. But you have to pay attention to what these candidates are saying, to what they have done in the past. Do your homework. It is your future too. This has become ‘the government of the few over the many’ because we have let it be.

We the people have allowed ourselves to be manipulated by elected officials who kowtow to the whims of an arrogant sociopath who surrounds himself with unethical lackeys who obediently change laws to further his blind ambitions.

We the people allow ourselves to become victims by not voicing our opinions at the voting booths.

I am from the small towns and countryside of America, I have no vested interest in political office and therefore am not blinded or muzzled in order to tow-the-party-line. I am much less suspect of the word of my working class peers in Iraq, and other countries, than I am of the ruling class. These people live the truth. They survive through their own cunning, despite the greed and lust for power of an endless stream of rulers who claim they are protecting them while stuffing their own pockets with the profits of the working peoples sweat and blood. Only when their voices are not filtered through our mass media can we see the everyday truth of what our leaders have brought down onto them.

Our mainstream media outlets are doing the American people a grave disservice for not exposing the Bush/Cheney White House for what it is and for sucking up to them just because of the office they hold. The media is allowing Bush/Cheney to perpetuate their lies by covering up, candy-coating or burying stories that are detrimental to the war or White House policy.

Any reporter who stands up to speak the truth while in employ of the main stream is banished to some small market where their voice cannot be heard and cannot, therefore, do damage to our leaders reputation, even though the leaders reputation is so ruined, as evidenced by popularity polls, as to have no honor.

Iraq’s citizenry is not any better off under the military rule we have imposed on them than they were under Saddam Hussein. It is just a different breed of madness through the use of hired goon squads. Because of their religious beliefs they are still fearful of stepping out of their homes, they are still fearful of walking the streets, there are whole sections of their city they cannot walk in or drive through without fear of being killed. They can only go to certain hospitals because of their religious practices (Sunni’s control some hospitals while Shiites control others).

How many more innocent citizens are going to be gunned down because they did not move quickly enough to satisfy a power hungry maniac with an automatic rifle? How many more U.S. soldiers are going to come home in body bags before we finally stand up against this administration and put a stop to this wanton misery? How much more resentment can the families of those same soldiers take?

Either hold the presidential election early or impeach and let the next in line take over in the interim. Nancy Pelosi cannot possibly do a worse job than these greedy liars. But I have been proven wrong before.

If we have to re-impose the draft until this madness is over then we should do so. This would be a much preferable arrangement than paying hired gunmen who answer only to the White House. While it is true the military can be called ‘hired guns’ they are under a much less cavalier set of guidelines on when and when not to fire upon the civilian population. I don’t believe we ever will invoke the draft because Bush/Cheney don’t want this war to end. It would cut into their profits.

With the current trend in outsourcing our responsibilities it is only a matter of time before our entire Department of Defense becomes outsourced to the highest bidder, all in the name of saving money. Hell, why not outsource the presidency? Then our government would not have to be accountable for anything and we can place the blame for wrongdoing on the board of directors.

Write your congressperson and senators to stop funding these mercenaries. A website has been setup to help you identify your congressperson and senator, by your zip code, and then forwards your comments to all of them with just one click is C-Span.org.

Hired guns and outlaws

Blackwater U.S.A. is a mercenary security force made up of ex-military commandos, ex-police officers and civilians hired to protect corporation and government employees around the world. They are hired bodyguards trained to kill and incapacitate.

Blackwater U.S.A. has been paid millions of dollars by the U.S. government, our tax dollars, to protect U.S. civilian employees and contract workers because the U.S. military force is not large enough to do it themselves. The American people do not want us in Iraq and therefore cannot raise a sufficient military to finish what was started there.

Blackwater's duty, as it is with any private organization, is first to their own organization, and secondly to whomever hire them.

It is inevitable that there will be a few men in every organization who will go beyond the legal guidelines to do their job. Individually, they will feel 100% justified in their actions. To the greater society they are immoral, unconscionable murderers.

The fighting in the streets of Iraq is the same terrorist tactics that took place in Viet Nam. This alone is the only correlation that can be drawn to that war. The enemy does not wear readily-identifiable uniforms. They blend in very well with the civilian population and are protected by their civilian supporters. Frustration among U.S. military and civilian security forces runs high due to this single fact. In a hostile situation such as Iraq with its day-to-day street fighting there are bound to be civilian casualties. This is the whole idea behind terrorist tactics, to force the aggressors to be perceived as murderers so that terrorist groups can tell the world ‘look at America, they come into our country and kill our civilians, they are blood-thirsty murderers, we must all rise up against them'. If the fighting was here in the U.S. the terrorist could not use this tactic.

However, since the U.S. government is the leading cause of why these terrorist groups are in Iraq, the U.S. government alone can put an end to it.

I have no faith that whatever we are are trying to accomplish in Iraq is ever going to come to fruition.

There is no valid reason for the U.S. to continue its participation in this struggle between two thick-headed, narrow-minded groups who think they are the only ‘chosen’ people who are allowed to occupy this planet. They are fed only by the deeply ingrained hatred for one another based in centuries old need for retaliation. To attempt to alter the course of the history of these people is pure folly.

Their only ‘crime’ against the United States is that they have vast reserves of oil that Americans want to feed their out-of-control and insane desire to own the most gas-guzzling, environmentally-damaging vehicles on the planet. Our appetites for fuel consumption cannot be curbed by higher gas pump prices. Our appetite for faster, ever bigger vehicles cannot be slowed down by threat of draining the well dry. We are convinced that there is always some way to hang on to those oversized vehicles, no matter how much fossil fuel they burn. We will fight tooth and nail to hang on to this foolish need to dominate this planet, as witnessed by the war in Iraq.

If we had been more reliant on alternative fuel sources these past six years this war in Iraq would not have taken place. If auto makers would stop making vehicles that can reach speeds far above the posted speed limits of ‘every’ American roadway we could take a giant leap forward in producing alternative-energy vehicles and lessen the threat to this planets oil resources that are needed for other machinery besides automobiles.

Corporations, and therefore individuals, are getting filthy rich from money made from the blood spilled in Iraq, over oil. Good Iraqi citizens have been uprooted from their ancestors homes, over oil. They have lost family members to random bullets fired by mismanaged, over-zealous security forces who would rather ‘kill them all and let God sort it out’, over oil.

This illegal war is based on the fact that spoiled, arrogant Americans cannot control their lustful need to, not just ‘have everything’, but also to ‘control everything.’ Our hunger for faster cars, our drive to be #1, along with our petty and selfish need to ‘answer to no one’ causes the rest of the world to stand back, shake their collective heads and frown in disgust at how pampered and petulant we have become.

We need to refocus our energy policies from one of killing people and destroying lives for the domination of oil reserves that will eventually be depleted, to a policy of alternate energy sources that is healthier for our planet and ultimately healthier for us. In adopting this new policy we might even be able to show the rest of the world that we are not as selfish and greedy as we have been showing ourselves to be. No. That would be asking for too much.

In the meantime, back in the real world, America and Blackwater U.S.A. are not above man’s law, and they certainly are not above God’s law. By protecting these individuals from prosecution their protectors are placing themselves against these laws and as such should be prosecuted as well. But then again, George W. Bush has lived against the law since he took office so what’s new, right?