Wednesday, September 19, 2007

S.O.P or B.A.U

The Iraqi government has issued a preliminary report about the "Shootout at Blackwater Corral" last Sunday. It sounds very much like so many other reports of mercenary violence in that country.
A preliminary Iraqi report on a shooting involving an American diplomatic motorcade said Tuesday that Blackwater security guards were not ambushed, as the company reported, but instead fired at a car when it did not heed a policeman’s call to stop, killing a couple and their infant....

...The report said Blackwater helicopters had also fired. The Ministry of Defense said 20 Iraqis had been killed, a far higher number than had been reported before....

...“The traffic policeman was trying to open the road for them,” he said. “It was a crowded square. But one small car did not stop. It was moving very slowly. They shot against the couple and their child. They started shooting randomly.”

In video shot shortly after the episode, the child appeared to have burned to the mother’s body after the car caught fire, according to an official who saw it.
In the movies nobody likes the gang of gunslingers hired by the evil cattle baron. In an administration locked into image over substance,it is curious that our cowboy preznit would hire a gang of gunslingers to protect his evil oil barons. Maybe he isn't really a cowboy.

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