Bush sickens me again this week. A rant

[MrScorpio]

The three American civilians working as security guards who were slaughtered by the residents of Falluja yesterday worked for a local Moyock, NC company name Blackwater. Needless to say, it's been a Blackwater day for these men and their families who have yet to be named.

So many aspects of this incident are sickening and heartrending, from their killing to the burning and dismemberment of their corpses, down to the hanging of their bodies parts from a bridge and the report that an Iraqi attached other body parts to his car's rear bumper and dragged them though the streets.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40445-2004Mar31.html

These events were so horrific that some Iraqis themselves were disgusted.

So much for Cheney's prediction that Americans will be welcomed as liberators.

These men, unaware that they would be slaughtered, awoke yesterday thinking that they were performing a much valued service protecting American servicemen and making a living to provide for the security of their families.

Now, their families are mourning them and the very servicemen that they were hired to protect can't even retrieve their sectioned corpses for fear of the same happening to them.

Disgusting.

But as we all know, that these are more of the crimes of the Bush Administration. Their lies have caused more needless bloodshed and heartache. We get more of their crap telling us that the Iraqis are better off with us there and, as Tommy Franks just recently remarked; 50,000 American service deaths would be OK with him.

50,000 deaths? We're talking a level of carnage on par with the Viet-Nam and Korean wars. His generation of soldiers were supposed to learn from our previously bungled forays into needless wars of imperialism.

But they haven't learned. Since they're planning on building 14 permanent bases in Iraq over the years, I expect more scenes like this:



I hope that the families of these dead men finally recover the torn and mangled bodies of their loved ones, bury them and mourn their loss. But once the mourning has ceased, do everything within their power to unseat the criminals infesting the White House and allow their replacements to set things straight before more families suffer as they have.

[Lisa]

1. our town's lost a couple of people in Iraq too ...

And we're in Canada, where most of us didn't support Bush's war. I can't imagine what the families of the four people who died so horribly are going through. The Canadian who died earlier in the week was working for one of the contractors -- his wife is a popular local news reporter. And last year, a guy who'd gone to my school (we'd worked in the same building) was killed in that attack on the UN -- he had just been put in charge of Unicef's aid programme.

So many people dead, maimed, or traumatized -- and for what?

[rustydog]

2. Actually, you are a bit off base...these are not run of the mill

rent-a-cops.
What happened to these men was horrible and despicable. No one can argue otherwise.

These "Contract Employees" are ex-military, ex-special forces types to be more exact and they took jobs in a combat zone. they knew going in that this is not a Sunday Drive. they were also being paid more than you will hope to make in a year simply to kill people if need be.


In an earlier time these persons were called Mercenaries. contract Employees doesn't sound as deadly as mercenary does it?

What happened to the men and their bodies is unconscionable, but it should not be a surprise. don't forget, the Iraqis are the aggrieved party in this. We illegally invaded them and they are trying to drive the invaders out of their country. (Ever see Red Dawn? wouldn't you do the same?)

It is horrible what the Iraqis did, but the mercenaries went to iraq for the MONEY.
Sadly, they got more than they bargained for.

[MrScorpio]

3. Of course, i know that they would called mercenaries in another time

They were in if for the money. There's no disputing this. I really can't fault them for it.

But my point is this, They're dead and they probably wouldn't be if Bush hadn't lied. The sheer brutality of their deaths is testament to the seriousness of the lies. And now their familes are suffering for it.

Nobody deserves to die like this for a paycheck. Nobody deserves to be taken away from their familes like this.

Serviceman or civilian.