JoeB131
Diamond Member
Technically every active duty soldier is a paid mercenary.
well, no, not really. They take an oath and they can't quit any damned time they feel like it, or take up work for someone who pays more money.
The only reason you even know about Blackwater is because of the criminals in the Democrat used them to help turn the tide against the war. Have you heard anything about them in the last several years?
Blackwater is now called Academi because Blackwater has such a shitty reputation now. That's why we haven't heard much about them.
What turned the tide against the war is we all figured out Bush lied his ass off about why we were there and he had no clue as to what the fuck he was doing. I'm sorry you've missed that after it's been explained to you several times. I'm not sure why you pick a smart character for your AVI when when say such dumb things.
A company that has been a Defense contractor since Vietnam but only became nefarious when a Republican president uses them. Democrats are still using Halliburton. But as usual, Democrats like to turn normal activity into a crime when Republicans become involved.
and that sort of profiteering needs to stop. I think it's bad when both parties do it. The reason we got WWII finished in four years is because no one was making money off of it and the guys who had to fight it were stuck there until it was done. When Wars become a profit-making exercise you get the Vietnam War lasting 8 years or the War on An Emotional State lasting, what, are we in year 16 now?
Oh, and this BS about killing civilians is bogus. al Qaeda doesn't wear uniforms. Everyone in al Qaeda is a civilian. Besides, when you decide to conduct a war in your homeland people sometimes get caught in the crossfire, especially when you shield yourself with so called innocent civilians. They did it in Okinawa during WWII, and they did it in Somalia when I was there.
Frankly, if we are in a place where we can't tell the people we are fighting from the people we are there to "liberate", we probably shouldn't be there because they are one in the same.
That has nothing to do with the fact the FBI found that Blackwater had killed 14 civilians without cause.
Educate yourself.
Nisour Square massacre - Wikipedia
Long story short, an AMERICAN court convicted four Blackwater employees and sentenced them to long prison sentences.
which is better than what an Iraqi Court would have done with them.