Blackwater

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The private security company which guards American diplomats and the top military brass in Iraq is in hot water for behaving like out of control nazis.
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Well, maybe this is a little strong, but maybe not too.
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So why is the American goverment afraid to use American soldiers in this job function? Or if they have been so successful at training the Iraqi forces, why not use them? It seems to me that all private militias/security guards in Iraq should be made illegal. They are certainly inappropriate and undemocratic. They operate almost entirely outside of the Rule Of Law.
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This is just another slap in the face by the Republicans to democracy. Kind of like just willy nilly eliminating Habeas Corpus. These bozos are bad news.
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Alan Greenspan certainly is not known to OVERSTATE anything. For him to describe this Republican/Bush adminstration as "dangerously dysfunctional" should be major news and something we all ought to pay attention to.
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