Blackwater = Xe?

[Coexist]

Do people now spit out your name because you are so hated?

Just change your name to something they can't pronounce, and all your problems will disappear.

Blackwater Worldwide, the contractor that emerged over the last few years as Exhibit A for ugly Americans in Iraq, has decided that the best response is to ... change its name.

And check out the name they picked: "Xe." (Apparently it's pronounced like the letter 'Z.' Raising the question: Why not just call it "Z"?)

They've also renamed Blackwater Lodge & Training Center, the subsidiary that does much of their controversial overseas operations. It's now the "U.S. Training Center Inc." (Which doesn't exactly mesh with "Xe," but whatever.)

According to the Associated Press, Blackwater (or should we say "Xe"?) president Gary Jackson said in a memo to employees, announcing the changes, that they reflect a shift in the company's focus away from private security and toward operating training facilities around the world.

File this under WTF?

[NoPasaran]

1. Out of the frying pan, into the fire?

They went from being a notorious band of mercenaries to sounding like a Microsoft product.

[Avalux]

2. We had a homebuilder in town who was sued for shoddy work.

Went through the lawsuit and emerged on the other side...promptly changed their name and continued building houses. More than likely just as shoddy.

They thought the name change would distract from their bad reputation. Blackwater thinks the same thing.

[Lint Head]

3. This fascist origanization needs to be dismantled before the people

of this nation are consumed by them. I guarantee they 'will' kill Americans. When that happens it may be too late for us.

Imagine this over your home. Who will they kill next? When will Blackwater privatize torture?

[HillbillyBob]

12. These choppers fly over our house about once a week.

Some times its 3 some times up to 8 choppers, most of them have 50mm machine cannon and 20mm, a few times they have had the slightly larger with Sidewinder missles on hardpoints(mounted on the outside bottom of the fuselage and runners)
We live about 50 minutes flight time from Mynock.

[MiniMe]

4. Pronounced "Zee", as in XE bastards

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Xe... pronounced "Zee"??? Doesn't that sound a little..... Chinese??

Did the Chinese buy up the mercenaries too?

[aquart]

7. My Chinese friend Xu's name is pronounced "Shu."

Did Blackwater pay a really large fee to get that name?

[eShirl]

9. I'll bet Xe "She" did.

[aquart]

6. With an "x", the pronunciation is "she."

I would have thought.

[Coexist]

8. I figured it was pronounced like Xena, but without the na.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Zee is not your Fuhrers Schwartz Wassen n/t

[DRoseDARs]

11. Either way, Xe is still above xe law until Congress or xe Justice Department do something about it.

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