Who drives against traffic in a traffic circle, you ask?

The State Department contract with Blackwater, which is about 1,000 pages long and extensively detailed, stipulate that State Department convoys travel quickly and drive aggressively.  Furthermore, no State Department official ever travels with less than three vehicles and they’re always the biggest stuff they can find, with those obnoxious “Warning: Stay Back” signs and all of that. 

This is in contrast to the CIA, which drives around Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, with contract security, all the time, but doesn’t run into trouble.  Why?  Because they’re riding in unmarked beat-up pickups and following traffic patterns.  The difference, surprisingly, is not the contractors - both employ them - but the agency that hires them and the terms of the contracts.

It’s sad to think that the State Department officially has the lead for public diplomacy.  Who most heavily opposed the State Department terms under which Blackwater is employed?  The Department of Defense (which also employs contractors, but again, under different terms), folks who actually know a thing or two about public diplomacy, even though it’s not their primary duty.

The State Department contract also stipulates that diplomatic security guards must wear wrap-around sunglasses (a cultural faux pas in the Arabic world) and prohibits facial hair (another cultural faux pas).  Just what WERE these State Department boys learning at Georgetown?

Let’s be honest here, immunity was given because Iraqi lives are not worth as much as American lives. We would not allow anyone to come into our country, kill our citizens, and leave without any punishment. But to us, a Arab life isn’t worth as much. If it were the mercineries would be put on trial and hung, as was done with Saddam and all of the Bathists that we allowed to be hanged. However, when American contractors commit war crimes and murders, they are allowed to leave Iraq and find other government employment. The puppet government of Iraq is powerless to do anything because it’s not their government it’s ours. The same racist attitude on display in Iraq has been displayed in America since it’s beginning. White life is superior to that of Black, Native American,Hispanic,and any other non-white. You see it in the form of the death penalty and the sentences given to minorities in the criminal justice system. So what’s happening in Iraq is just America’s way so spreading racism, white superiority and it’s two tier system of justice throughout the world. God Bless White America and no one else.

Actually, as you read through, the story line becomes familiar: in an effort to determine the truth of a matter, immunity is granted to those involved.  (With an exception retained for particularly gross offenders.) In other circumstances this would be called a “truth and reconciliation commission.” South Africa set up one after apartheid fell.  The same arrangement is fairly common in America in certain types of investigations.  This is not the shocking news its being made out to be.

This shit has got to stop!! There has to be a revolution in this country so that we can get rid of ALL of these “selected” and appointed minions of these criminal, yet inept, corporations which control the decisions that are put upon the American populace. And that is not only the Bush cabal, but congress, the state department, the supreme court, F.C.C., the Pentagon, the “repugnicant” party, and the spineless and abetting democratic party. To hell with the “new world order”, let’s take back our damn country.

MAYBE WE GIVE THE “MAFIAS” (RUSSIAN,JAMAICAN,AMERICAN) ALL IMMUNITY FOR ANY, AND ALL THEIR ACTIONS? THEY ALL HAVE “BUSINESS/MONEY” REASONS AT THE ROOT OF THEIR ACTIONS AND, SINCE THESE BUSINESS NEEDS ARE, NECESSARILY, ACCEPTABLE???  LET"S JUST TURN OVER OUR/THE WORLD TO THEM.  HOW’S THAT FOR A SOLUTION? WHAT DO YOU “WUSSIES” THINK?  GIVE UP. WITHOUT DEBATE?  WITHOUT A FIGHT? IF YOU SAY YES, YOU SUCK.IF YOU SAY NO, JOIN TOGETHER TO MAKE YOUR OPINION KNOWN.I’M more than just frustrated by your apathy, I’m deeply distressed at your continued selfishness and apathy.