PRIVATE REPUBLICAN ARMY-- FASCIST MERCENARIES-- BANNED BY IRAQ, BUT...

As we've mentioned before, one of DWT's neighbors is helping with a rebuilding project in Baghdad. He's running it and has been living over there. He told me that he stipulated in his contract that he will not be forced to use Blackwater personell in anything to do with his project. He threatened not to work on the project until this was agreed to. Run by a big Republican donor and Bush crony, Erik Prince, in the Iraqi consciousness Blackwater is exactly what the Hessians were in the early U.S. consciousness. They are seen as vicious mercenaries run by one of the worst of the war profiteer companies.

Today we find out that the government of Iraq has cancelled Blackwell's license to operate in their country-- in effect reducing the American military presense by as many troops as Petraeus and Bush claim they will do... soon. This morning CNN reports pretty much what my neighbor has been telling me for a couple of years: the perception among Iraqi civilians-- and this is borne out by years of grisly statistics-- is that Blackwater mercenaries, far, far more than American military personell, treat Iraqis like dogs and shoot them for sport.

Iraq's Interior Ministry has revoked the license of Blackwater USA, an American security firm whose contractors are blamed for a Sunday gunbattle in Baghdad that left eight civilians dead. The U.S. State Department said it plans to investigate what it calls a "terrible incident."

...An Interior Ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf, said, "We have revoked Blackwater's license to operate in Iraq. As of now they are not allowed to operate anywhere in the Republic of Iraq. The investigation is ongoing, and all those responsible for Sunday's killing will be referred to Iraqi justice."

The Bush Regime will, no doubt, remind the puppet government in the Greed Zone who's really running the show and I expect that it will soon be kiss and make up time between Maliki's Greed Zone operation and Blackwater.

Romney, who, like Giuliani, has an atrocious record of hiring really unsuitable people to work for him-- Larry Craig, Jim McCrery and David Diapers Vitter are just three recent examples-- just hired a Blackwater vice-president as his terrorism policy advisor.