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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 09:44 AM
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Can someone propose a war crimes law for private contractors?
Althought the primary reason the Bushies love to use them is to fill their friends pockets, a secondary benefit is these guys aren't accountable under the UCMJ.

We should have a law that these parasites can be tried here for crimes they commit overseas on the taxpayer dime or if they don't work directly for the government for crimes they commit in our war zone or occuppied territory.

We need to cut off the blood flow to that tumor before the next war, preferably before this one is even over.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 09:47 AM
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1. 100,000 mercenaries at how much per diem and WHO is paying them?
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 09:51 AM
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2. exactly. Here's an easy talking point for Dems in Congress to memorize: privatization IS corruption
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 10:00 AM
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3. do you sometimes wonder if the whole thing is not planned
from the word's we're speaking, as much as it was predictable to uz 6 years ago that we'd be in this
tizzy today, mucked up in a bush-war, but that the rise of the bushishtas was itself planned decades
before in media agreement, far earlier than one would expect, as just too damn much of this is coincidence,
who wrote the script and i ain't buyin' god.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 12:35 PM
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6. yep, the good news is, the public has stopped reading their lines in the script
cause they figured out they're getting screwed.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 03:41 PM
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7. i'll believe that when i see it.
Are they planning to end the drugs war?

Do they realize how bad the script is,
are they planning to replace 'free trade'
with managed trade, and return from the brink
of this globalist abyss of invasive mammon?

I hear the people want a change, good, but
what change is that?
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 07:00 PM
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8. just the war script...
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 10:03 AM
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4. Do mercenaries enjoy the sovereign immunity of their master's state?
Just wondering. Seems like they are just the equivalent of thugs, gangsters and terrorists if they aren't dressed in the military uniform of the nation whom they serve.



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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 12:28 PM
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5. my preference would be to turn them over to the Iraqis. and their corporate officers.
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