If troops are drawn down what happens to Blackwater?

[rurallib]

Those guys really scare me plus we are paying through the nose for their services.
Can W just replace regular army & marine units with Blackwater? Can our government give them weapons and a legitimacy?
What will a new president do if Blackwater refuses to leave Iraq?
Could Blackwater act as a private army for those want to steal Iraqi oil?
Having a private army sure complicates things.

[bluerum]

1. They work for the highest bidder.

[rurallib]

2. That's reassuring. Talk about loose cannons.

[spindrifter]

3. I'm not worrying about

BW's welfare if we do a troop draw-down. They have been insinuating themselves into other areas...like training cops at U of Illinois. They are not going to do anything unless they are making the big bucks. Besides, there will still be plenty of security work even if we pull a few thousand of our troops out of Iraq.

[rurallib]

4. Sure didn't mean to make it sound like I was worried about BW's

welfare. I am worried about ours with a private army running around doing god knows what.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. They do cop training all across the country.

And THAT scares me - if it all goes to shit here cops all across the country will see BW as being 'on their side', and not as an armed militia. It's all a part of the militarizing of the police that's been going on for three decades, and is a framework for fascism.

[rusty quoin]

5. I think those are some good questions.

BW is making too much money. Will they easily give it up?

[madrchsod]

7. from an earlier post today

blackwater is joining the narco wars thanks to the democratics funding the war on drugs.another endless war that`s cost hundreds of billions and has`t done any thing to stop drug use

[Gregory Purcell]

8. They march on Washinton and make Bush Dictator for Life

and the airforce joins with blackwater

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