Blackwater Founder: We Could Stop ISIS

[mick silver]

Erik Prince has a message for ISIS: You’re lucky Blackwater is gone.



On Friday night, the controversial founder of the private military company (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/19/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-war-on-terror-has-become-too-big.html) had plenty to say about what the organization he once ran could be doing in the fight against the so-called Islamic State (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/24/mistaken-identity-a-bra-line-named-isis.html)—and also why Republicans need to stop being such losers.
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“It’s a shame the [Obama] administration crushed my old business, because as a private organization, we could’ve solved the boots-on-the-ground (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/17/are-obama-and-his-generals-on-the-same-war-plan.html) issue, we could have had contracts from people that want to go there as contractors; you don’t have the argument of U.S. active duty going back in there,” Prince said in an on-stage discussion featuring retired four-star Gen. James Conway. “[They could have] gone in there and done it, and be done, and not have a long, protracted political mess that I predict will ensue.”
Prince was speaking at a dinner event for donors to the Maverick PAC, a conservative group with ties to the Bush dynasty, at the Capital Hilton just blocks from the White House.
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His private military company (since rebranded as Academi) courted more than its fair share of trouble during the Bush years, in large part due to Blackwater guards gunning down 17 civilians in Baghdad (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/before-shooting-in-iraq-warning-on-blackwater.html?_r=0). The Obama administration severed most ties with Blackwater, and Prince sold the company and uprooted to Abu Dhabi, where he continued doing sketchy work (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304439804579203883470837874) with security forces. Feeling betrayed by the Obama administration, he has since said that his days working for the U.S. government are over.
But on the subject of the federal government that he no longer wishes to work with, Prince has a rough message for the Republican Party: Get off your asses, guys. (Prince is a libertarian, staunchly Catholic conservative.)
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“I want you to tell your congressman that we pay them to fight,” Prince told the crowd. “They are hired to fight for our values, for what you sent them there to do… I am sick and tired of Republicans getting rolled—having a lousy, weak leadership that gets rolled every time by the Democratic Party. We’re like… Charlie Brown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055wFyO6gag) trying to kick the football every time and they keep taking it away… I encourage the Republican Party to get off their ass and fight like we pay them to.”
This was the big applause line of the evening, but another one of Prince’s crowd-pleasers came when the conversation turned to Iran. He, of course, had nothing but unkind words for the regime (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/16/how-iran-could-become-our-shadow-enemy-in-the-syria-isis-war.html) in Tehran (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/10/a-maple-syrup-mecca-for-iran-s-gays.html), but praised the young, liberal population of the Islamic Republic.
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“Most Iranians… are just like you guys,” he said. “They want to be able to drink a beer when they want, travel where they want, have their wife or girlfriend drive a car or wear a short shirt and wear high heels. I’m all in favor of it.”
Roughly 70 percent of the country’s population is under the age of 30 and has no memory of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, so the Prince characterization is… sort of on the money (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/06/us-iran-youth-idUSTRE7951Y720111006).
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But what—beside perhaps killing ISIS members—could The Artist Formerly Known As Blackwater do for the world today? Prince has said that one thing that inspired him to create Blackwater was his disgust at the international community’s failure to stop the Rwandan genocide (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/31/after-the-genocide-rwanda-s-widows-aging-alone.html).
“Who can watch the movie Hotel Rwanda and not wish it had a different outcome?” he told (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GULPEzJJ6c&feature=related) Charlie Rose in 2007. “Who didn’t wish that the UN would have sent troops or yanked those Belgian commandos back there, to secure that hotel and to provide some safe havens? I mean, you let almost a million people in a country about the size of Maryland get killed by farm tools over four months.”
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So I asked him what he sees in terms of the humanitarian potential for something like Blackwater in the world today. He pointed to the NOAAS McArthur (S 330) (http://www.wired.com/2007/10/blackwaters-nav/), an American survey ship once bought by Blackwater for the stated purpose of humanitarian missions.
“Now, that’s the sort of thing that could help fight Ebola,” Prince tells me.
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[EE_]

If you're not afraid of ISIS now, listen to this out of control crude feminist cunt, Judge Jeanine Pirro, push the Fox news Jew narrative.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF99hTNVois#t=22

[mick silver]

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[midnight rambler]

There are no plans to stop the crazy as Hell Satan-worshiping jihadists, they've been given a multi-year contract and free pass.

[Ponce]

To their way of thinking they will kill everyone in that country in order to get rid of ISIS.

v

[Spectrism]

If you're not afraid of ISIS now, listen to this out of control crude feminist cunt, Judge Jeanine Pirro, push the Fox news Jew narrative.


She is a Catholic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic) of Lebanese descent.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Pirro#cite_note-1)

I like her for the most part. Just what part of her talk is wrong? How is she an out of control cunt and you are not an out of control prick?

[Spectrism]

To their way of thinking they will kill everyone in that country in order to get rid of ISIS.
v

No Ponce... ISIS kills everyone who is not ISIS.

[Hypertiger]

Yes...that is why they are called Blackwater...More like Crackwater.

"On the evening of 28 April 2003, a crowd of 200 people defied a curfew imposed by the Americans and gathered outside a secondary school used as a military HQ to demand its reopening. Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne stationed on the roof of the building fired upon the crowd, resulting in the deaths of 17 civilians and the wounding of over 70. American forces claim they were responding to gunfire from the crowd, while the Iraqis involved deny this version though conceding rocks were thrown at the troops. Human Rights Watch also dispute the American claims, and says that the evidence suggests the US troops fired indiscriminately and used disproportionate force. A protest against the killings two days later was also fired upon by US troops resulting in two more deaths."

"On 31 March 2004, Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah ambushed a convoy containing four American private military contractors from Blackwater USA, who were conducting delivery for food caterers ESS."

"The four armed contractors, Scott Helvenston, Jerry (Jerko) Zovko, Wesley Batalona, and Michael Teague, were dragged from their cars, beaten, and set on fire. Their charred corpses were then dragged through the streets before being hung from a bridge spanning the Euphrates River. This bridge is unofficially referred to as "Blackwater Bridge" by Coalition Forces operating there.[19] Photographs of the event were released to news agencies worldwide, causing outrage in the United States, and prompting the announcement of a campaign to reestablish American control over the city"

"This led to an abortive US operation to recapture control of the city in Operation Vigilant Resolve, and a successful recapture operation in the city in November 2004, called Operation Phantom Fury in English and Operation Al Fajr in Arabic."

"The U.S. military first denied that it has used white phosphorus as an anti-personnel weapon in Fallujah, but later retracted that denial, and admitted to using the incendiary in the city as an offensive weapon. According to George Monbiot, reports following the events of November 2004 have alleged war crimes, human rights abuses, and a massacre by U.S. personnel. This point of view is presented in the 2005 documentary film, Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre."

"most of Fallujah’s civilian population fled the city, which greatly reduced the potential for noncombatant casualties.[24] U.S. military officials estimated that 70–90% of the 300,000 civilians in the city fled before the attack"

"Residents were allowed to return to the city in mid-December 2004 after undergoing biometric identification, provided they wear their ID cards all the time. US officials report that "more than half of Fallujah's 39,000 homes were damaged during Operation Phantom Fury, and about 10,000 of those were destroyed" while compensation amounts to 20 percent of the value of damaged houses, with an estimated 32,000 homeowners eligible, according to Marine Lt Col William Brown. According to NBC, 9,000 homes were destroyed, thousands more were damaged and of the 32,000 compensation claims only 2,500 have been paid as of 14 April 2005."

"According to Mike Marqusee of Iraq Occupation Focus writing in the Guardian, "Fallujah's compensation commissioner has reported that 36,000 of the city's 50,000 homes were destroyed, along with 60 schools and 65 mosques and shrines". Reconstruction mainly consists of clearing rubble from heavily damaged areas and reestablishing basic utility services. 10% of the pre-offensive inhabitants had returned as of mid-January 2005, and 30% as of the end of March 2005. In 2006, some reports say two-thirds have now returned and only 15 percent remain displaced on the outskirts of the city"

"Pre-offensive inhabitant figures are unreliable; the nominal population was assumed to have been 250,000–350,000. Thus, over 150,000 individuals are still living as IDPs in tent cities or with relatives outside Fallujah or elsewhere in Iraq."

"On 4 January 2014, the Iraqi government lost control of the city, which is now held by al-Qaeda-linked militants, a senior security official in Anbar province said that day. Fallujah is reported under the control of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS; sometimes called ISIL). More than 100 people were killed as Iraqi police and tribesmen battled militants who took over parts of two cities on Anbar province. On the same day, the Iraqi Army shelled the city of Fallujah with mortars to try to wrest back control from Sunni Muslim militants and tribesmen, killing at least eight people, tribal leaders and officials said. Medical sources in Fallujah said another 30 people were wounded in shelling by the army."

"Despite various reports stating that the ISIS was behind the unrest, Christian Science Monitor journalist Dan Murphy disputed this allegation and claimed that while ISIS fighters have maintained a presence in the city, various tribal militias who sympathized with the ideas of nationalism and were opposed to both the Iraqi government and the ISIS controlled the largest share of area in Fallujah. A report from Al Arabiya also backed this claim and alleged that the relationship between the tribesmen and the ISIS militants was only logistical. On 14 January, various tribal chieftains in the province acknowledged "revolutionary tribesmen" were behind the uprising in Fallujah and other parts of Anbar and announced they would support them unless Maliki agreed to cease the ongoing military crackdowns on tribesmen"

"In 2010 it was reported that an academic study had shown "a four-fold increase in all cancers and a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer." since 2004. In addition, the report said the types of cancer were "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout", and an 18% fall in the male birth ratio (to 850 per 1000 female births, compared to the usual 1050) was similar to that seen after the Hiroshima bombing"

It's not Americas fault...They are just mental weaklings controlled by a Jewish master mind into doing all they do.

Hopefully the Messiah shows up soon to liberate all the poor deluded American souls from the clutches of the false GOD.

It must be cool to be born in the USA...You can have your minds turned to puss by overdosing on red, white, and blue glue...then ignorance becomes bliss.

[Hypertiger]

Oh my GOD look at that crying baby on the other side of the planet on T.V.

Is there not someone that can help that poor unfortunate innocent child?

Have no fear ma'am Super USA to the rescue.

6 months pass.

Ma'am...

Yes?

I have good news and bad news.

What is the good news?

We saved that child.

You did? thank Jesus...praise the LORD..."He who saves a single life, saves the entire world."...Hallelujah

But what is the bad news?

We had to kill a million children to save the one.

But just think/embrace positive (fantasy/lie believed to be Truth) ignore/reject negative (reality/Truth)

That is how you ignorant drones are programed to do Mathematical calculations.

How much longer to you think the USA is going to be able to get away with worshiping ignorance as bliss?

Or damnation as salvation?

Lies as truth?

Fantasy as reality?

Satan as GOD?

My best guess?

Not much longer.

You all are not going to be able to vote your way out of the real hell you voted your way into the past 7 decades trying to sustain existence in ignorance is bliss or fake heaven.

[EE_]

She is a Catholic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic) of Lebanese descent.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanine_Pirro#cite_note-1)

I like her for the most part. Just what part of her talk is wrong? How is she an out of control cunt and you are not an out of control prick?

Come on, you know she's pushing the Jews agenda...
watch her...she even speaks yiddish!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD7QuefOnnI

and I am an out of control prick that thinks we should be bomb bomb bombing Israel, instead of all the innocent people she wishes to be collateral damage.

[crimethink]

No Ponce... ISIS kills everyone who is not ISIS.

ISIS kills whomever its creators and sustainers so choose.

[crimethink]

Come on, you know she's pushing the Jews agenda...

"There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy."

Any human who entitles themselves "Judge" is of the Devil. You don't need to listen to any of her deceitful gibberish. Just stop at the unentitled title.