Shocking News! There's a connection between Bush and Blackwater!

[Tim4319]

I find this hard to believe. Yeah right!!!!!

Okay, is this enough proof that this administration is making money off of the deaths and destruction of American and Iraqi people?



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The private security firm Blackwater USA, which has faced mounting criticism following an incident earlier this month in which armed guards from the group purportedly killed 11 unarmed Iraqi civilians, has numerous links to the White House as well as many current and former Republicans.

The connections include the firm's chief operating officer Joseph Schmitz, who was tapped by President Bush in 2002 to "oversee and police the Pentagon's military contracts as the Defense Department's Inspector General."

The relevation was first reported by Ben Van Heuvelen in Salon.

Serving until 2005, Schmitz went on to preside over "the largest increase of military-contracting spending in history" and joined Blackwater just a month after his departure from the Pentagon, according to Van Heuvelen.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Blackwater_USA_linked_to_Bush_administration_1002.html

[greenbriar]

1. hell, they are probably related

for all we know

[KitchenWitch]

2. I'm SHOCKED, I tell you, SHOCKED!

[Lint Head]

3. There is gambling in Rick's cafe?

Arrest everyone! :dem:

[lonestarnot]

4. Yes and did you see how much it costs to equip a grunt now?

I think I read today 28 to 65k per grunt.

[Tim4319]

6. I did not know that!

[Emit]

5. Lol. Nothing phases us anymore. n/t

[jberryhill]

7. Round up the usual suspects!

[Golden Raisin]

8. One day Blackwater may be rounding

up Congresspeople Bush and Cheney don't like and carting them off to Halliburton domestic internment camps.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. I think it's imperative that our Democratic representatives get their own

security detail when they go to Iraq. It's obvious that the Republicans have bought their own private Army - and with tax dollars, no less.

[flashl]

10. I am shocked for the 948, 594, 388 time n/t

[auburngrad82]

11. There are several ties

Employees of Blackwater include former Bush IG Joe Schmitz who became Blackwater COO in 2005, former CIA Counterterrorism Chief Cofer Black, who has been co-Chairman since 2005, former head of the CIA's Near East Division, now VP of Intelligence, and former CIA and Blackwater VP of Special Programs Rick Prado. Additionally, Blackwater is represented by Kenneth Starr's lawfirm in the numerous lawsuits surrounding the deaths of four Blackwater soldiers in Fallujah in 2004 and the crash of a Blackwater aircraft in Afghanistan in 2005. Source:Business North Carolina

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=3544545">Interesting facts about Blackwater USA



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[Tim4319]

12. Oh what a tangled web we weave!

Have this administration ever had to answer any of these connections? I believe they should!

[youthere]

13. *yawn* I'm beside myself with surprise.

*looks left* Yep there I am.

[LuckyLib]

14. Flash: The Pope is Catholic AND bears shit in the woods!

;)