Anybody actually think BlackwaterUSA will leave Iraq willingly?

[american_typeculture]

Take their ball and go home? I ask the question because Blackwater has been such a strict observer of the letter of the law in Iraq ever since they have been over there. :sarcasm:

[rhiannon55]

1. I'm sure that they do everything they do WILLFULLY...

the bastards. Now WILLINGLY--that's a whole 'nother thing...:)

Edited due to hubris: making a typo while correcting your word usage. :hi:

[american_typeculture]

2. Thanks! I'm on about 2 hours of sleep here.

changed it, :blush:

[MountainLaurel]

3. I foresee the U.S. using regular troops

To fight to keep the Blackwater mercs in Iraq. Things have gotten that strange, that what should be a headline in The Onion is actually reality.

[King Coal]

4. Who in the hotel bill is going to kick them out? The State Dept. has to have them there.

[BreweryYardRat]

5. They're mercenaries. Cut off their funding and they'll leave.

It's just that that's not going to happen right now.

[I_Will]

6. ...even if they were to, where would they go?

Here?

And do what?

Sell insurance?

Run a latte shop?

Be stay-at-home dads?

That's the scary part, to me.

Thousands of soulless urban warfare vigilante commandos who are used to not answering to anybody other than themselves. After all, they have the firepower; they make the rules.

That'll work out well.
:hide:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. They're not leaving

I'm convinced of that fact.

[dkofos]

8. They can kick Blacwater out, but the mercenaries will just sign up

with another merc / security Co.

[warren pease]

9. Sure, if they're redeployed to some increasingly troublesome...

...country where approval for official policies has reached all-time lows, where a Congress fresh from getting their ears singed by their infuriated constituents may just take action to curb the administration after all, where the chronically poor have been joined by the nouveau poor who formerly comprised the middle class, and where the natives are growing increasingly desperate over domestic economic conditions like deflating currency, housing foreclosures, massive credit card debt, and so forth.

Sound like any place you can think of?


wp

[DefenseLawyer]

10. They will probably leave Iraq

and still collect their fat government contract. It's a win/win for privatization!

[derby378]

11. "We're Blackwater Mutual. Can we interest you in some short-term life insurance?"

"No sale? Too bad for you!"

:nuke: