Mitt Romney Still Silent on Blackwater Massacre
By Logan Murphy Monday Sep 24, 2007 11:34am
Via The Politico: (h/t Taylor Marsh)
Mitt Romney has remained mum on the alleged killing of 11 Iraqis by a company where one of his top advisers serves as vice chairman, even as the case has led to an uproar in Baghdad and Washington. Barack Obama, John McCain and other politicians have raised the possibility of tighter controls on the firm.
The top counterterrorism and national security adviser to Romney’s presidential campaign is Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA.
The Iraqis died after guards employed by the private security firm opened fire following an alleged attack on a State Department convoy under their protection. Blackwater has a lucrative contract to guard U.S. diplomats in Iraq.
Blackwater has said its employees acted “lawfully and appropriately” in response to the attack. But Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf has said a report found that the security guards opened fire first on Iraqis who were driving in their cars. And the incident has prompted a noisy debate over the role of independent security contractors in Iraq — a debate Romney thus far appears to be steering clear of. Read more...
Call it dumb luck, poor judgment or pure stupidity -- Mitt Romney's campaign has been dogged by missteps, hackery and high profile flubs that have literally turned his campaign into a joke. Cofer Black is a stain on his campaign, why doesn't Romney fire him and condemn Blackwater's crimes against the Iraqi people like he did when he threw Larry Craig under the bus after his bathroom scandal?
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Romney is a CROOK & LIAR!
He wants to throw the constitution under the bus, double Guantanamo, and perpetuate violence so his buddies can reap financial gain.
Maybe Mitt has contracted out the dog-torturing to Blackwater.
Mitt steps in so many piles of crap and still smells great.
To quote Monty Python: "Ee must be the king." "Ow do you know?" "Ee's the only one that doesn't have sh*t all over 'im"
Trigger happy mercenaries = Meh
Heterosexual Republicans boinking prostitutes = Meh
Gay Republicans toe tapping in toilets = Evil!
The massacre is a bad thing. But the bgger outrage is the entire premise of for-profit companies that make billions and billions "winning" no bid contracts. The billions would be worth it if their efforts actually expedited the end of the war. However, the longer the war, the more money they make.
Consider a contractor who builds highways. If we gave them open-ended contracts and told them that the longer the highway takes to build, the more money they make ... how do you think that would go?
Still no word from the DEMs on Blackwater?
Maybe someone should still consider asking them.
In league with Blackwater, eh? Gee, didn't see that coming ;-)
Blackwater is simply the American version of the German secret police. They're dangerous people who need to be muzzled.
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Back in the days of yore, in World War II, war profiteering was considered as a form of treason. Now, some sixty years later, under the illegitimate criminal regime of Bush and Cheney, war profiteering is just corporate greed as usual...
Blackwater is Bush's gestapo.
Of course they acted "lawfully", if you take into account that convenient blanket immunity.
Barack Obama, John McCain and other politicians have raised the "possibility of tighter controls on Blackwater."
Wow. That's reassuring.
Romney has no chance of winning.
We need to focus on the whackos that have a
chance of winning the Republican Nomination -
like Rudy G.
I sent Blackwater's media relations an e-mail a few days ago. Since I didn't want to tip my hand, it was an innocuous e-mail asking if they had a link for investor relations. Then I asked that perhaps I was falsely assuming that they were publicly held. I left room for inference that I was an investor looking for ways to invest, without saying so.
No answer yet.
I still don't know if they are publicly held. If they were, I'd love to see their stock performance and lay it over the course of the war. I'd also like to peruse their 10-k. I'm starting to think they are privately held. Anyone know? If they were publicly held, I'd like to see Cheney's porfolio (the one he launders through other channels) right before the massacre investigation became public knowledge.
[Please. Do not advocate violence on this site-Sitemonitor]
What has our great country come to you have people defending the murder of civilans and nobody says nothing.This is begining to be too much these peopleare already displaced and already scared and we sen cotracters over here to help kill more of them my god please help us all we need it.We have cheerleaders on the right that in there hearts knows what going on is wrong.
The GOP is counting on Blackwater and other terrorist groups like them to keep them in power after the lose next Nov.
One Word ... TOAST.
Yeah, his campaign may indeed be a joke, but the same could be said of Bush's.
Twice.
Logan, don't forget that Mutt Romney's aides were using fake badges so they could by-pass local authorities, avoid paying tolls and trick security guards at speaking engagements, fund raisers, etc.
This inquiry assumes that GOPers are ever held accountable for any of their miserable failures, rank hypocrisy, and stunning incompetence. As long as God and their wives forgive all of their transgressions, and they don't get caught diddling boys, jack shit will ever happen to them.
Wait a minute here. My liberal bone fides are substantial. but you are starting to give the right wing nutcases, like O'rielly, credibility. You state that Romney (a nutcase himself) should "condemn Blackwater’s crimes against the Iraqi people". How is it that you decide whether a crime was committed? I don't like the private security guards doing the military's job any more than you do, but I sure as hell care a lot more about truth, integrity and credibility than you do.
Mike Says:
I don’t like the private security guards doing the military’s job any more than you do, but I sure as hell care a lot more about truth, integrity and credibility than you do.
See the thing is, Mike, that Blackwater isn't doing the troops job so much as they are doing the terrorists job. The UN and ever free nation on the earth needs to place these m mercenary groups on their list of terrorist originations and treat them as such. Congress needs to ban these fanatical freaks from returning to the US, least they take arms against the American people one day.
Why should Mitt do anything to undermine Blackwater? He's always had a penchant for 'personal police forces' even if they had fake badges. (Look up 'Jay Garrity' and Romney on Google).
Like the current GOP administration, they're counting on Blackwater as their militia force to usurp the military and police functions in this country and establish a dictatorial state...nothing new, nothing surprising...look back to Germany in 1933--Using the SA and the SS, Hitler totally circumvented the authority of the police and military and then soon thereafter, the Reichstag. We've already elected our ineffective Weimar Republic when we gave the 'majority' (uncontrollable laughter) to the Do-nothing-crats!
America's finest days are behind us, I'm afraid and it was all destroyed by corpaorate greed under the guise of fear of terrorism, foreigners, homosexuals and abortion. Consider Germany, where Hitler whipped up the masses after the Reichstag fire, hatred of homosexuals and Jews, etc.. If it sounds depressing, it should, folks...because it was all laid out clearly, but we let morons like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reillys speak for our nation!
Mike @ 23:
That's pre-9-11 thinking. I think the Blackwater mercenaries are what we now call "illegal combatants."
Come to think of it, maybe that's why Mitt wants to double the size of Gitmo -- to make room for the Blackwater terrorist/detainees.
Let's play connect the dots: Mitt Romney, from Michigan son of a former govenor who had also served as head of American Motors - The Prince family, formerly makers of auto rear view mirrors, had two children - 1 the head of Blackwater and 1 the wife of the heir to the AmWay fortune and a recent candidate for governor in Michigan. All of these people are the about the same age, all went to school together and all have in common that they never earned a cent of their own money! Isn't it time we taxed these cocky heirs out of their webs?
ChrisM70 @ 14:
I would agree Romney hasn't got a chance - but I think Giulia is seriously damaged goods with his significant negatives - and he even comes across as bat-shit crazy.
So maybe Romney would have a better chance if he ~~
-- bought a few nice dresses and tresses and some matching pumps and lipsticks,
-- bought himself some air filtration masks and wore them to campaign stops and said he was America's "original" mayor,
-- chewed on his wife's face in public and got her to say how high his testosterone levels were,
-- had his hairdresser shave off most of his hair,
-- told his kids to take a hike and never darken his doorstep again.
*
Simon White-Thatch Potentloins @ 9:
I would go so far that they need a sign on the door as a register "killing machine for hire" on their residential site that they reside in. Some of the death and injury involve a child in Iraq. Certainly worse than being a child sex offender in this case if you can kill them.
Let's stop referring to Blackwater as a "private security firm" and call it what it is:
A Paramilitary army.
Strange question, but has anyone notice that the colors and layout of the Blackwater emblem are alarmingly like those of the black swastika on a field of white surrounded by red????
Is there any doubt about the ultimate intent of these fuckers?
Cofer Black is _not_ gay,
nor has he _ever been_ gay.
Mitty Rominey speak with forked tongue just like Rude Rudy, FRAT BRAT BUSH, Holywood Fred, Newty Gigerich, Rushin'Rush-(aka the GARBAGEMOUTH O'DUH SOUF) LIMBERDICK-LIMBAUGH, Majik Bullet Huckelbee-damned and all thye rest of that gang of fakes and liars....So what else is new?
Where's the Hound of the Baskervilles to kick Romney's butt?
Read the fine print. Ask Mitt anything about God and the flag.
dog care expert and would be gitmo doubler Mitt loves seeing Iraqis killed in canned hunts by his Blackwater pals. All these repubs believe in eugenics
Ruthless People @ 35:
God's flag is at half mast?
This is an important link about Black Water I posted before.
You will soon see them as a sub contractor in domestic law enforcement.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3039345&C=america
Maybe their motto will be "We're the cops that come when you don't call us."
How would you like to be arrested by a private contractor, then get sentenced in a privately run prison?
Whose our government again?
"...why doesn’t Romney fire him [Cofer Black] and condemn Blackwater’s crimes against the Iraqi people like he did when he threw Larry Craig under the bus after his bathroom scandal?"
I believe the answer to that question would be, "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!"
By the way, is it even possible to "win" a "no-bid contract." The fact that it's "no-bid" pre-ordains the outcome, does it not?
You "win" the no-bid contract when the politician you know and or contributed money to gets elected.
It's not like you have to submit a proposal with silly things like price, scope of work and dates.
Hey anyone remember that the CIA has its own "army"? Well refresh your memory http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030203-411370,00.html
blackwater is the choir for romney. he is a fascist and needs his mercenaries to get out the word.
Good short video primer on Blackwater.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071008/scahill0921
A lot of bad news for Mitt Romney: http://havenworks.com/people/a-z/r/romney-willard-mitt still, Mitt Romney may have truly inherited one Reagan characteristic: teflon suits, all the shady things about Romney and nothing seems to stick in the media conscious.
Vitam Vas @ 16:
The violence I advocated was in accordance with the local laws, and a function of harsh justice. Right or wrong, that is how murderers are dealt with in Iraq.
V V
So off topic, but when are we going to be required to yell Sieg Halliburton?
Well, I guess you can 'ask' Mitt anything.... Just don't 'actually expect an answer' if he doesn't like the question...... As far as why Romney won't ditch Cofer Black? Well, Black hasn't been caught naked with a small child, animal or cop trading sexual favors in a public restroom yet.... Soo, I'm guessin Mitt figures no biggie, no problemo...Of course given the embarrassment factor at work here for ol Mitty personally? I'm guessin that on the next cross country vacation junket, Cofer will be banished to the top of the car with the dog...........JD
I doubt that Mitt gives a big rat's ass about a few Iraqis getting greased. As far as his advisor is concerned, the problem is there are too many of them so a little delayed birth control might be just the thing.
It ain't wrong if'n I do it. I deny it if'n you say I did it.
Ah, such a conundrum....
A narcissistic maniac like Rudy?
An amoral slime bag like Mitt?
A senile old codger acting like Captain Ahab (McCain)?
or a lazy sack with a power mad wifey like Fred?
Hell, if Huckabee weren't such a self-righteous bag, I would prefer
HIM to the big three....
...why doesn’t Romney fire him and condemn Blackwater’s crimes against the Iraqi people like he did when he threw Larry Craig under the bus after his bathroom scandal?
Because he's an asshat, a fucktard, an empty suit. He's hoping a strong jaw-line and the Utah Olympics are enough to get Americans to vote for him, and in many cases, he'd be right there.
Mitt really bugs me, because I had a "friend" like him once (an acquaintance, to be sure) and he was soooooooooooo phony!! They are two peas in a pod. That acquaintance had the same "boring good looks".
No doubt Bush and Cheney created their merc army to avoid US law and the uniform code of military justice in their activities overseas.
What concerns me just as much, if not more so, is we keep hearing about Blackwater expanding its headquarters here. I can not imagine a more dangerous situation than to have a mercenary army here in the US... with sworn allegiance only to a pay check.
Bush deployed them after Katrina in NOLA and this was a test no doubt about getting around Posse Commitatus and other laws regarding using Federal troops for law enforcement duties. Call me a tin foil hat if you will, but the possibilities for a coup in this country just went up astronomically.
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/598-blackwater-facing-growing-protest-over...
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/51429/
What could he possibly say to defend this kind of corruption that he, himself undoubtly approves of.
There's nothing like "killers for hire" with no boundaries of the law.I totally resent my money being spent to support these monsters.In addition, i resent my money, my child's money and my grand and great grandchildren's money being spent on this neo war.
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