IRAQ SAYS EXPULSION OF BLACKWATER MERCENARIES IS NOT NEGOTIABLE

Have you been watching the Erik Prince p.r. offensive on TV. Does he look like he's not the Antichrist? No, no... I mean doesn't he look like he is the Antichrist? The History Channel ran that Antichrist expose again this past weekend. I think they show it as soft-core gay porn now that Larry Haggard, the world's #1 Antichrist hunter and exploiter, has been exposed as a tushy-licker. Watch:



Whether Price is or is not the Antichrist, we probably will never know-- unless we find out too late-- but he has been very reclusive and secretive until Henry Waxman dragged him out of his little cocoon and made him testify publicly. Since then you can't get him off the TV. Last night 60 Minutes did a bit of a puff piece. You tell me: is this the Anitchrist?



Or just another greedy, grasping right-wing loon?

My good friend of mine is based in Baghdad as head of a major rebuilding operation. Last year he explained to me how Prince's mercenary company, Blackwater, is the heart of darkness, evil incarnate. But Prince disagrees. "I've not seen... any evidence to support any kind of egregious, malicious, intentional wrong behavior."

End of subject? Uh... probably not. The A.P. reports today that the puppet government in the Greed Zone is demanding that Blackwater leave Iraq within six months. Why are they giving them six months?

The Iraqi investigators issued five recommendations to the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which has since sent them to the U.S. Embassy as demands for action.

Point No. 2 in the report says:

"The Iraqi government should demand that the United States stops using the services of Blackwater in Iraq within six months and replace it with a new, more disciplined organization that would be answerable to Iraqi laws."

Sami al-Askari, a top aide to al-Maliki, said that point in the Iraqi list of demands was nonnegotiable.

"I believe the government has been clear. There have been attacks on the lives of Iraqi citizens on the part of that company (Blackwater). It must be expelled. The government has given six months for its expulsion and it's left to the U.S. Embassy to determine with Blackwater when to terminate the contract. The American administration must find another company," he told AP.

...The Iraqi government investigative report said Blackwater guards had killed 21 other Iraqi citizens and wounded 27 in a total of seven previous incidents, including a shooting by a drunk Blackwater employee after a 2006 Christmas party. Congress is investigating whether the government relies too heavily on private contractors who fall outside the military courts martial system.

DynCorp, a less reckless and less inherently vicious mercenary company, will probably take over Blackwater's contracts. Bush will make sure American taxpayers are screwed and Blackwater is well-compensated. And will Pelosi's promises prove to be more empty rhetoric that don't end the war even one micro-second sooner than Bush's departure from the White House?