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Daily Archives: June 17th, 2007

Good growing weather for the House of Blackwater

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Apparently the difference between a mercenary and a “contractor” is that a contractor doesn’t do offensive operations. At least that seems to be the line peddled by the various “security” companies to which the United States has thrown large amounts of money for off the book, and off the Geneva Convention (not that it matters) […]

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General Taguba speaks out

Sunday, June 17, 2007

More reason to believe that we may never recover from the criminality of the Bush Administration in Seymour Hersh’s latest article in the New Yorker. General Antonio Tagula, who conducted a circumscribed (by his superiors) investigation of the Abu Ghraib torture, was forced out of the military in January, and for the first time he […]

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