Dowd: Sinking in a Swamp Full of Blackwater (Mercenary-Evangelical Complex)

[RamboLiberal]

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The Blackwater desperados are a sinister symbol of how little progress we’ve made in Iraq, that V.I.P.’s — or “packages,” as the contractors call them — can’t make a move in the country without the high-priced hired guns of the State Department.

Americans have been antimercenary since the British sent 30,000 German Hessians after George Washington in the Revolutionary War.

But W. outsourced his presidency to Cheney and Rummy, and Cheney and Rummy went to war on the cheap and outsourced large chunks of the Iraq occupation to Halliburton and Blackwater. The American taxpayer got gouged, and so did the American reputation.

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Once there was the military-industrial complex. Now we have the mercenary-evangelical complex.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/opinion/03dowd.html?hp

Good one MoDo!