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"The enemy has a face. It is Satan's. He is in Fallujah, and we are going to destroy him."
-Colonel Gary Brandl, US Marines
“Our God is stronger.” - General William Boykin (ret.)
Blackwater is the notorious ‘rent-an-army’ mercenary group which was founded in 1997 and is run by neo-conservative Christian (and Bush buddy and Republican donor) Erik Prince. Killers for Christ, you might say. Front-line soldiers in the Crusade in Iraq, where they are universally loathed by everyone, even fellow Americans.
Clothed in military fatigues and wrap-around sunglasses and bristling with weaponry, they like to knock cars out of the way with their humvees, to throw bottles of water at civilians or through store windows and to shoot at people for sport.
They are immune to Iraqi law, and above American laws. You may recall that on September 16th, 2007, a group of them opened fire in busy Nisoor Square in Baghdad, killing eleven civilians, including at least one child. Of course they lied, but it was established beyond doubt that their deadly attack was unprovoked. There were no significant consequences.
Blackwater’s reputation in Iraq was well-earned (they also pointed guns at the heads of flood victims in New Orleans) as early as March 31 2004, when residents of Fallujah (I will not apply the term ‘insurgents’ to people who are defending their homeland) seized four of the mercenaries, killed them, and hung their remains from a nearby bridge.
This led to a retaliatory siege of the city of perhaps 300,000 by US the military, but it was repulsed. A second siege was planned for just after Bush’s election (if that’s what it was) in 2004.
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Re: Fallujah: America's Heart Of Darkness
By USMARINE03, November 12, 2008 at 19:48Wow~ I am a good Christian and served in Iraq twice as a Marine Infantryman! I saw a lot of good being done there with building of schools and homes to giving out rations to those who can not afford them. Blackwater is under a lot of stress there and it is hard for everyone. I do not support the killing of people unprovoked and would tell my Marines all the time to not shoot unless sure! Some Soldiers, Marines, Private Contractors do not believe in the war but are just doing their job. If you have never been there you have no right to talk becuase you are spreading word of mouth without solid facts. This is not good journalism! Good journalism is reporting the facts in an unbiased way! If you leave in America and do not like it get the HECK OUT!!! JFK said "Ask not what you country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!" Maybe you should STFU and do something instead of wanting everything done for you!
Re: Fallujah: America's Heart Of Darkness
By johnhatch, November 13, 2008 at 01:38Wow, the old 'Love i tor leave it' meme, fresh from that other proud example of American genocide, Vietnam. My Lai. Operation Phoenix..Throwing people out of helicopters. Drowning them in buckets. America the brave. Fortunately I don't have to do either, as I don't live in your horible country, nor would I even visit as a matter of principle. So your country invades, imprisons without charge or trial (including young children) tortures, commits crimes against humanity and you call this 'duty'? This is your job? You defend it? Poor you.
Ask what you can do for your country? You can start by ending the killing. Stop obeying illegal orders. Stop torturing people. Stop the terrorism. When Nazis did it, it was barbarism. When you do it, it's 'American Exceptionalism'. It's the same damn thing, and the world knows it. Read books, including the Bible (it will shock you with its insanity and violence. And by te way, a self-described good Christian would know that Christ said 'Thou shall not kill'. What's so hard to understand?). Ask for a legitimate investigation of 9/11. Inform yourself as to how many nations you have violated, including democracies over the past 50 years, or over your entire dreadful history, beginning with the Native genocide. Your ancestors fed Indian children., sometimes still alive, to dogs. Look it up for yourself, don't take my word.
GTFO? No. You have to. And you will. Now that your greedsters in government and Wall Street have perhaps bankrupted the world economy, the distrust and emnity is palpable and permanent. A divine Obama couldn't reverse this newest damage to your already horrible reputation. So you're building schools in Iraq? How, when there's virtually no electricity? If you were providing it (or clean water), would the children be learning about American democracy? It would seem that that kind of learning is better when the lights are out.
I hope you suffered no physcial or psychological injuries as a resut of your 'service'. If so, you know that abandonment is the official policy of the Administartion you support. How very dumb.
I'll never understant how Americans can be so easily conned into voting agains their own interests, time after time. How very dumb.
Read. Learn. Good luck.
Re: Fallujah: America's Heart Of Darkness
By johnhatch, August 15, 2008 at 22:16Hi Luyen,
Yeah, it's scary thinking (if you can call it that), the same fantasy and denial that could ultimately lead to nuclear war with Russia. Here's Bush, Condi, and McCain, all with straight faces, saying 'You can't just invade countries', ignoring completely the fact that American/Israeli backed Georgia attacked civilians in South Ossetia! Madness!
Re: Fallujah: America's Heart Of Darkness
By luyen, August 9, 2008 at 23:49Those two quotes in your story are very scary...- with such great ferocity and disdain for any kind of free thinking, these men of war make absolutes were none exist, and rain down death at their disposal in the name of something they know nothing about, projected from their own perverted minds.
This makes me think of the Jonny Cash song... "sooner or later, God's gonna cut you down"..
Re: Fallujah: America's Heart Of Darkness
By taichiforce, August 9, 2008 at 07:23American rented armies, soldiers, and marines, don't ever called yourself Christians again. All Christians will be shamed about you! And also Christ Himself! Christ comes to the world to show His love and saved the world, not to kill innocent civilians, regardless of their religions.