Interesting, isn't it?
Blackwater returns to Iraq and Baghdad erupts into violence all over again.
Gee, it would seem as though Georgie wants war more than anyone else, doesn't it?
But, the same people that returned the Blackwater Death Squads to Iraq will point fingers at the Sistani Shi'ites in Baghdad's Sadr City as the culprits. Why do the people of Iraq have to accept 'danger' in their lives and WHY would anyone expect them to without retribution or the initiative to dominate their own 'definition' of survival under regime after regime after regime?
One might ask, why would any Iraqi think their central government doesn't have control over the country.
Hm?
Iraq's Al Maliki condemns Blackwater contract renewal (click here)
AgenciesPublished: April 07, 2008, 14:47
Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki criticised the renewal of a US contract with security contractor Blackwater, saying the company has committed a “massacre” against Iraqis.
The US State Department had said Blackwater’s contract would be renewed pending an FBI investigation into a September 2007 incident in which the company’s guards are accused of wrongly killing 17 Iraqis....
Bush lies and what do we know? Right? Bush lies and people die. What else is new? He and Cheney are planning "another go-at-it" in Basra. The USA troops need to be removed from Iraq. As soon as possible. The Civil War is 'REACTIONARY' to daily developements that threaten the citizens. Iraq simply is just not that big a place to be carrying on a war no different than that of Vietnam. For God Sakes, KNOCK IT OFF !
BUSH/CHENEY have successfully 'displaced' the 'image' of Osama bin Laden with the Shi'ite Cleric ad Sadr. Iraq is COMPLETELY the "W"rong war, but, its dividend of oil is more of a Neocon reward than anything Afghanistan has to offer in the way of War Plunder !
Four U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq (click here)
www.chinaview.cn
2008-04-08 15:28:47
BAGHDAD, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Four American soldiers were killed in separate incidents in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
Two soldiers assigned to Multi-National Division-Baghdad were killed by a rocket propelled grenade attack at about 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) Monday, a brief military statement said without specifying the location of the incident.
A third soldier was killed when a roadside bomb explosion followed by small arms fire attack on his vehicle while patrolling an eastern Baghdad area Monday, another statement said.
A fourth soldier died as a result of wounds sustained from a roadside bomb explosion while conducting convoy operations in the volatile province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, on Sunday, a statement said.
It was the second U.S. soldier announced dead in Diyala province, as an earlier statement announced the death of another soldier in the same attack.
The names of the deceased soldiers are being withheld pending notification of the next of kin, the statements added.
The latest deaths bring the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq to some 4,023 since the Iraq war broke out in 2003, according to media count based on Pentagon figures.
Why were the Blackwater contracts extended? Because Bush wants to place more people in positions to attempt to bloster the attempts by the Iraqi military to kill more citizens, that's why. If Blackwater can go back to doing their jobs as ? guards ? they can put the people now taking that role back 'in play' in the Iraqi military. Right or "W"rong, Bush's 'Musical Soldiers' do nothing but cause issues no one can solve.
Govt. Extends Blackwater's Deal a Year (click here)
By ANNE GEARAN – 3 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians and allegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA's multimillion-dollar contract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the State Department said Friday.
A final decision about whether the private security company will keep the job is pending, the department said. Moyock, N.C.-based Blackwater is one of the largest private military contractors, receiving nearly $1.25 billion in federal business since 2000, according to a House committee estimate.
Blackwater provides security for diplomats in Baghdad, where the sprawling U.S. Embassy is headquartered. Its private guards act as bodyguards and armed drivers, escorting government officials when they go outside the fortified Green Zone.
Iraqis were outraged over a Sept. 16 shooting in which 17 Iraq civilians were killed in a Baghdad square. Blackwater said its guards were protecting diplomats under attack before they opened fire, but Iraqi investigators concluded the shooting was unprovoked.
An FBI probe began in November. Prosecutors want to know whether Blackwater contractors used excessive force or violated any laws....
The people of Iraq have a lot of fears. Well earned fears, based in the incompetence of the Bush/Cheney military and militias. First anarchy, now civil wars with the USA backing the deaths of citizens while justifying their actions as necessary to secure the 'Western Infrastruture' of Iraq.
A nation ruined (click here)
Volume 25 - Issue 08 :: Apr. 12-25, 2008
INDIA'S NATIONAL MAGAZINE
from the publishers of THE HINDU
JOHN CHERIAN
The war against Iraq, now five years old, is unquestionably one of the most unpardonable crimes against humanity.
...The number of Iraqis killed under American occupation varies from 100,000 to more than a million, according to the source. The British polling agency ORB says more than 1.2 million Iraqi non-combatants have been killed in the last five years. Another recent poll jointly conducted by leading Western television networks including the BBC and ABC revealed that half the residents of Baghdad lost at least one of their relatives in the violence following the U.S. occupation. Seventy per cent of the respondents wanted the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops....
...Nobody questions the rationale for the U.S. participating in the fight against fascism, which that war symbolised. But the Iraq war is an illustration of unprovoked aggression in which the armies of the U.S., the U.K. and Australia played a major role. Demands that George W. Bush, Tony Blair and the Australian Prime Minister of the time, John Howard, be prosecuted by a war crimes tribunal are growing louder by the day. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, in a speech delivered in May 2005, said that “the colonial invasion of Iraq, and the ugliest of lies of the lie machine that propagated and justified these barbarous acts will forever remain among the greatest and unpardonable crimes against humanity”. The Nuremberg Charter clearly states that initiating a war of aggression is a “supreme international crime”.
It wasn't that Saddam was removed from Iraq. It was 'the way' he was removed that was incompetent and ludicrous ! Today, the people of Iraq have far worse odds of living any definition of longevity than ever in their history !
