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What a prince...
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:27:14 -0400, Harry
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On 6/16/10 1:14 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:43:42 -0400,
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In 2008, two Blackwater employees were indicted for murder after a
shooting in Afghanistan, and The Nation reports that Prince is
currently
facing several new civil lawsuits, including one put forth by the
company's Iraqi victims.
The danger in this is we may be setting up the US Army for the same
type of thing. There is plenty of evidence that our military has shot
innocent people too.
We can't even start to address the number of innocents who get killed
in aerial attacks, going back almost 20 years in these ill thought out
mid east adventures.
That is the nature of a war where virtually all of the combatants are
out of uniform, fighting from the cover of civilian neighborhoods.
Well, *we* can adhere to higher standards or, better, realize that these
wars are pretty much worthless adventures. As for Blackwater and its
criminal execs and employees, put 'em on trial and if they're convicted,
imprison them.
I think the question is whether the Army really does have higher
standards about who the lowest common denominator decides to shoot.
There are certainly a lot of reports about soldiers just shooting
Hajjis out the window of their HumVee for the hell of it.
As for air strikes. You hit what you hit, whether that is what you
want or not. They do make intelligent munitions that can be
deactivated if it looks like they will miss but then you just gave the
bad guys the makings of a nice IED.
Not sure about higher standards, but at least those in the military can be
prosecuted. The BW crowd may not be.
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