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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 01:20 PM Original message |
Civilian contractor (KBR) shot dead on U.S. base in Iraq |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. KBR has blood all over its hands. |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 02:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Love that picture. |
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GAtransplant (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 04:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. maybe the contractor was involved in the shower executions |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 04:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. But maybe not - I blame KBR the company, not the employee |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. I wish they used the correct term... A Merc was shot dead at a US Base in Iraq |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Exactly! |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. Blood thirsty bunch..No one has any idea what this guy;s "mos" was. |
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xynthee (322 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 05:23 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. Thank you for being a voice of reason and compassion. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 09:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
32. Either combat or in a support role would qualify as a mercenary. Where |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. Dude, they would have dragged either throughout the street |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 10:15 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. The people of Fallujah had a real gripe with Blackwater mercenaries. |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #43 |
47. They chop heads, there have been no prisoner exchanges |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 05:50 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. The head chopping did start happening in ernest until after Abu Ghraib. |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 05:51 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. Danny pearl, I can post dated video of him choking on his own blood and screaming |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 09:13 PM Response to Reply #51 |
58. That was in Afghanistan, I am talking about Iraq. |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 05:18 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. Same agenda, like dmv still sucks no matter what state you live in.. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 05:32 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. But was AQI active there at that time? |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #63 |
64. where at what time? |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 08:24 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. When blackwater was captured and killed. I thought that was just an angry |
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kelly1mm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 01:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. The VAST majority of KBR workers are in construction and |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 01:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Corp of Engineers and Seabees are subject to the UCMJ |
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kelly1mm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Mess hall / laundry / mail delivery - mercenaries? From your linked |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Yes, using the VERY STRICT definition of the term under International Law |
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kelly1mm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:37 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. We will just have to disagree then. In these economic times |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. You do know that those working those mess halls |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 12:24 AM Response to Reply #20 |
33. under international law they are not mercinaries |
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chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 02:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I agree. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 02:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Not only Iraqis, but also US Soldiers |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 02:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. "You signed with mercs" Riddick to Jack in Chronicles of Riddick... and he |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 05:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
28. Exactly my thoughts |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. Yep! And our tax dollars are paying for genocide in 137 countries by 732 mercenary companies... I |
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ManiacJoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 04:37 PM Response to Reply #30 |
45. The company count seems a little inflated. |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 06:39 PM Response to Reply #45 |
52. I too was shocked when the representative made that statement. |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. Sex, drugs? |
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jeffbr (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. occupational hazard |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
10. Mercenaries, oops contractors, have been allowed to kill our soldiers with impunity. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
14. So? |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Do elaborate on your post?(nt) |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Here |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:07 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Dick Cheney is dead? |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. ... |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Yeah , I was hoping for some response other than fuck that dead guy.. |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 10:01 AM Response to Reply #24 |
35. It brings out the best of our peace loving progressives |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 09:34 PM Response to Reply #35 |
68. don't worry... never as much as the righties... |
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Ed76638 (293 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
17. woot n/t |
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frog92969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
29. It's a start. |
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The abyss (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-13-09 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
31. Laugh Out Loud! |
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BeHereNow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
34. Sounds like a fragging to me. n/t |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
36. Hired by KBR to shoot and kill people but he's still called a "Civilian" |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
37. A mercenary paid a high price for blood money |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 06:34 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Or some dude from bangalore serving chow. (nt) |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 07:37 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Nevertheless, he was being paid with my $$$$$$$ |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 07:51 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. Well then fuck him.. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 04:06 AM Response to Reply #42 |
44. "Houston-based KBR confirmed the man killed was one of its employees, 27-year-old Lucas Vinson,,, |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. So he is an american, what was his mos. baby raper, mommy murder, or cook |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 05:19 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. Is your reading comprehension really that terrible? |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 05:30 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Like I said, that is pretty sick |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 07:03 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. Pity that your alleged combat mos didn't pay you those vastly INFLATED rates... |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 07:51 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. I drove a truck asshole. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 08:27 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Wow, since you don't have any problem with MILITARY PORK... |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 08:32 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. Not grave dancing. Sorry. |
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HET-Tech (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 09:00 PM Response to Reply #54 |
66. If you think the pay is too much... |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 04:46 PM Response to Reply #66 |
69. War is a racket... |
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HET-Tech (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 12:15 AM Response to Reply #69 |
70. Just imagine... |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 11:53 AM Response to Reply #70 |
72. Ahhh...but those 28696 posts weren't done on the taxpayers' dime(s)... |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-14-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Doesn't sound like "some dude from Bangalore" to me |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-15-09 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
53. Good. Many happy returns. |
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txlx1977 (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 04:32 AM Response to Original message |
59. Some of you people make me sick |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 04:23 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. Deleted message |
mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 05:02 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. Hooray for military pork! It is ab$olutely great |
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HET-Tech (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 09:29 PM Response to Reply #59 |
67. I agree |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:15 AM Response to Reply #59 |
71. Love it |
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