Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
A senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama told me that if elected Obama will not "rule out" using private security companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq.
The sad truth is that technically, all the city has to do is post one sign, a single, solitary sign, to signify the particular parking restriction for the entire block.
In my America, we are not scared to get in line at the airport. In my America, we will not be silenced.
Think of Viognier's flavors as the love child of Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscat (so what if it was a threesome?) It makes a marvelous aperitif wine to sip on its own, and it kicks butt with spicy Asian food.
Is building a US Embassy in Baghdad the size of eighty football fields and at a cost of well more than half a BILLION dollars evidence of short- or long-term thinking?
Welcome back to the weekly talking points for Democrats appearing on television this weekend. Before I begin, I'd like to wish Ted Kennedy a fast and...
Both Obama and Clinton have Iraq plans that will necessitate private armed security forces. While Obama's campaign has acknowledged this fact, Clinton has seized it as an opportunity to attack.
Taxpayers are the victims of an elite group of corrupt carpetbaggers, politicians and executives, who prey on their good nature and willingness to invest in their community.
How DO our candidates let the opposition get away with the canard that they, the Democrats, are the big spenders?
Neither Obama nor Clinton has a real plan to end the occupation. They could, however, be forced to change their positions -- thanks to the unique dynamics of the prolonged primary battle.
Blackwater is just one piece of an entire outsourcing system for which there is no accountability.
Anyone who thinks Blackwater is in serious trouble is dead wrong. Even if -- and this is a big if -- the company pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, business has never been better and its future looks bright.
It was a stunning, painful sneak attack that landed me in the emergency room of the U.S . Army's hospital in Baghdad's Green Zone. The attacker: Scratch, one of The New York Times' Baghdad bureau pet dogs.
To paper over the fact that he is destroying our military by overextending it, Bush has hired professional mercenaries by the thousands. I have a stake in this decision: it dishonors my son's service as a Marine.
Blackwater mercenaries aren't American soldiers. So what are they doing participating in Fleet Week Celebrations intended "to honor the men and women serving in the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps"?
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You don't know this guy "semper fi. He sounds like someone still caught up in his childhood fantasies of playing army. This guy might be only 14 0r 15 for all we desire anything he says his logic is immature and socially flawed. I wouldn't spend too much time arguing with him if I were you.
I've known people in my life time who's solution to everything is to kill it. Some people have never evolved beyond their reptile brain logic and never will which is why they just don't get it!
A little research on the Internet will show in video, pictures and confession what these men are really about. Many are retired SWAT Team, DEA, CIA and BATF Agents that have become addicted to the power and adrenaline.
Namaste
Some humans are more highly evolved than others. This is just a fact of nature. "By their fruits ye shall know them"
Very nice. You cannot advance an argument, and so you resort to childishness! That's the mark of a truly mature adult, isn't it!?
Semper fi
Beret ass keeter: Does Blackwater Pay to you write here?
Are our tax dollars being used to propaganda?
Semper fi,
Temper high!
Very funny!
I'm always please to see a good company do well. My best to Blackwater and its fine employees.
Semper fi
Just out of curiosity, Simper Fee, how much does Erik, Prince of Evil, pay you?
I'm not an employee, paid or otherwise, of Blackwater, thank you. If I were younger, I would have applied to them. Blackwater is a company with an excellent reputation among the larger security companies for the quality of their employees, the quality of their training, and the quality of their pay and benefits. I have 2 acquaintances who work for them, both sterling young men. I'd be honored to be numbered among them.
Semper fi
They are murdering criminals.
Evidence? You can either be hysterical or factual. Murder must be proven and involves intent. Has intent been proven?
Semper fi
For the life of me I can't understand why all of you are still living in the USA. You hate everything about the USA, and you'll still hate everything if Obama or Hill become the new administration.
You didn't learn from the Pelosi/ Reid congress ?
It'll be the same old same old whether a democrat or republican get the presidency. Ignorance among the USA population cost the most.
It's really pathetic....
to the iraqi people if any of you are allowed to read here which I doubt - please watch these illega l thugs of bush - and wehn theytell you they changed their minds and are not going to renew the contract because you complained they will agre with you except for one thing - the next group of thugsthey do make a contract with as if they have any right to do any of this - the new people will just be the old people in a different color clothing or a different name like they did when the y renamed napalm in vietnam against civilians - the politicians didn't lie - they really didn't use napalm anymore - becasue it wasn't called napalm anymore - make sure you tell your friends about this and yes to the other posters - let's ask kind old cluster bomb loving hillary what she thinks about this great deal for the iraqi freedom blood for oil pogrom
So Mark Penn strikes again, nice guy that he is, his firm lobby's for Blackwater just like they represent the Columbians, but Hillary said she's ok with him. Maybe on her next campaign stop someone will ask her about the Blackwater deal????????????????????????????????????????????
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