skippy the bush kangaroo: old blackwater keep on rollin, ar ramadi moon keep on shinin on meeee....

Monday, September 17, 2007

old blackwater keep on rollin, ar ramadi moon keep on shinin on meeee....

those blackwater boys can't help but gets into trouble. and it looks like iraq has had enough, and is banning the security firm from the country. cnn:

iraq's interior ministry has revoked the license of blackwater usa, an american security firm whose contractors are blamed for a sunday gunbattle in baghdad that left eight civilians dead. the u.s. state department said it plans to investigate what it calls a "terrible incident."

in addition to the fatalities, 14 people were wounded, most of them civilians, an iraqi official said.

woof. it was bad all around:

"our people saw a couple of cars destroyed," carter andress, ceo of american-iraqi solutions groups, told cnn on monday. "dead bodies, wounded people being evacuated. the u.s. military had moved in and secured the area. it was not a good scene."

iraq has had enough:

an interior ministry spokesman, brig. gen. abdul kareem khalaf, said, "we have revoked blackwater's license to operate in iraq. as of now they are not allowed to operate anywhere in the republic of iraq. the investigation is ongoing, and all those responsible for sunday's killing will be referred to iraqi justice."

it remains to be seen if blackwater will actually pay attention and leave.

addendum: politicky bitch writes extensively on this subject.

Labels: iraq

posted by skippy at 1:30 PM |

4 Comments:

you are awesome. i am SO FED UP with censors! kathy griffin first (which was funny). and now this.

talk about LIMITING free speech. i want to have a TV channel that actually censors NOTHING. i would pay for it!

when IS the next election it is taking a long time getting here!

love your piece you are in my top blogroll along with some buddies.

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kindredvampyre, 2:18 PM PDT

they won't need to pay attention as long as Bush is president, because Iraq is not a country but a colony.

the Iraqi Assembly asked the US government to declare exit dates for our troops, and to begin removing them...not once, but three times.

we ignore them.

they now de-license Blackwater, and Bush goes to bat for the hired killers.

and all along they have been telling us that this war is about freedom and Iraqi self-determination.

right. unh-hunh.

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joe in oklahoma, 3:22 PM PDT

Randi Rhodes brought up 'War is a Racket' by Major General Smedley Butler also today

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