Yup. My head done blowed up this morning when I heard that little gem on the news. Thank goodness, the Praetorian Guard is safe and sound from those pesky laws. And the collective population yawns. Did you see who got voted off "Dancing with the Stars" though?
God damn right, HS.
I think it was Billmon who consistently said that he was shocked at the Bushies' use of 1984 as a playbook.
It seems they've also added Animal Farm as a strategy guide.
"All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others."
Something like that.
Sweet crap, are these assholes so anti-government that they want to completely destroy the military, as well? 'Cause I don't see this bit of news being a powerful recruiting tool.
It's a fucking pity that bills of attainder are specifically ruled as illegal by the Constitution, or I'd suggest it to the incoming Prez. There is no immunity from a bill of attainder.
Flying. H. Spaghetti. Monster.
Ok the guys who offered immunity where not otherized to do so...mroe over the stte departemnt as a whole can't grant immunity...so the imunnity is invald, wh ycan't we prosecute these mercs?
The next year is already starting to feel like one of the longest years in American history.
So if I'm in Blackwater I get paid a shitload of money, I get to push people around with no recourse, and if I get caught I only have to choose "window" or "aisle"?
I think every soldier with a Rambo-complex just got their wish come true. If Stephen Green would've just waited to join Blackwater he could've raped that 15 year old and killed her family and have been back in the US by dinnertime.
Why are we losing this war again?
They might still get thrown under the bus, Breaker Morant-style. Someone has to go to jail for this.
The VIPs' only protection is by gunmen who are, if anything, even bigger targets than ordinary soldiers.
The brigadier general who got wounded earlier this week (the Slave Media made much of the fact he was the highest-ranking soldier to be wounded in Iraq) was supposedly being escorted by private security guards, not US troops.
WTF.
"...Just the sort of bullshit that I would expect completely incompetent Condi Rice to come up with...."
If the immunity story is true then why call Condi incompetent when she is actually doing her REAL job.
"If the immunity story is true then why call Condi incompetent when she is actually doing her REAL job."
gay veteran
-Her real job is being incompetent?
Why, then she's doing a heckuva job!
If these guys lied in their statements then I believe their immunity goes out the window.
And that's how the wingnuts and their objects of obsession show how much they luv them some troops...
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