Bring our troops home. Allow Blackwater to occupy Iraq.

Dear Mr. Sheer,

I am ready to make you and your little friends stay after hours in detention. And believe me you will not like keyboarding thousand word essays under former State Department official J. Cofer Black’s detention conditions.

You fail to grasp that private security contractors like Blackwater are in Iraq and are operating under dangerous conditions and they are protecting and guarding State Department lives in Iraq.

These really big and buff men, with their big and macho weapons are doing an unpleasant, but necessary job for the Department of State on US and Iraqi Approved Contracts---we at the DoS just don’t have the personnel to surge and cover all our operations in theater.

Just this morning Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called and was pitchin’ another bitch to me about all the mercenaries running loose in his country after reading an article and some blogger jerk named Haas’s comments in the WAPO.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/government-inc/2007/09/ private_armies_public_debate_1.html

I corrected the PM’s English usage and told him to find a new translator, because security contractors are NOT mercenaries under my husband G.W. Bush’s New American English standards.

I explained to the PM that private contractors can’t possible be considered mercenaries, because that might indeed be a violation of: “...Article 5 of the International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries of 1993, “States Parties shall not recruit, use, finance or train mercenaries and shall prohibit such activities” like that loser Haas pointed out…

And yeah so what, I told the PM that: “In some cases, legal devices are used to conceal the nature of the assignment or to make the mercenary appear to be a national of the country in whose armed
conflict he is involved.  Although the use of such a device conceals the mercenary’s real status, information such as the origin of the contractual
relationship, the payment, the type of services agreed upon and the simultaneous use of other nationalities and passports, may serve as
evidence in establishing the true nationality of persons involved in an armed conflict who are justifiably suspected of being mercenaries...”

“In these cases, the legal loophole is that the law guarantees that the market may operate freely and that people may be recruited freely. 

The person who recruits a potential mercenary is simply an intermediary and is not
committing an act that is illegal and criminal per se, since the mercenary will not necessarily receive money to commit a crime, the contract is
signed in a place other than where the criminal action will occur and the country’s laws do not classify mercenary activity in a separate category
which automatically links the name of the mercenary and his signing of a contract with the commission of a formally defined offence.  This situation
calls for careful investigation and monitoring of market activities related to the recruitment of persons for unspecified services, which constitute a traffic that culminates in objective damage in a territory other than the one in which the contract was made and jeopardizes the sovereignty of a
third State, peoples’ lives, the economy and self-determination.

To prevent mercenary activities, States should consider, inter alia, the possibility of revoking the operating licences and permits of entities
that have hired mercenaries to engage in illegal activities, refusing
passports and visas to mercenaries and prohibiting them from passing
through the territory of other States.”

“http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1995/a-50-390.htm

All the ruffled feathers are smoothed out now in the Press except for you and your little troublemakers.

If you keep nonsense this up, you could be in real trouble.

Diplomatically yours,
Condi Rice---that’s DOC RICE not DOC SPICE to you.

Should this be called Blackwatergate, Bushwater, Bushwa or just more of the incredible Bushshit in which our esteemed leader has immersed us?

Concerning the fact that the American government, bush, and the corporations, are using tax payers money to fund their evil take over of the Middle East, and the rest of the world for that matter, why don’t the American people stop paying taxes? It’s easy, just go down to your HR office, and ask to fill out a new W2 (or is it W4?) and enter 99 in the box after number of dependants. If every concerned American did this, there would be no money going to the government coffers.
Would the government arrest millions of Americans for not paying their taxes? Besides, all that is going on is the holding back of these taxes, which can be paid back later. Maybe.
Just a thought.

It doesn’t matter what evidence shows up, Blackwater is staying. They have full WH support and unconditional funding from Democratic Congress. Suck it up Maliki.

we will need an army against this private army*

(*to the truthdig editors: please do not edit or delete my comments)