Iraq: Blackwater guards fired unprovoked!
When everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon, how about you put yourself in the same position and ask yourself, do you want to see your family again, your daughter - your son, your wife!! This news is abosulute polictical propaganda!!!!
2007-09-22 18:04:18 · 8 answers · asked by Tom Clark 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The troops in the Middle East have rules of engagement. Granted, they may err on the side of self-preservation from time to time, but the rules are usually obeyed.
I'm not absolutely certain the hired guns are bound by anything. They have a job to do... and they do it. Perhaps, lacking any rules of engagement and any authority to which they are responsible, they may be more inclined to shoot first and let Allah sort it out.
I've been in combat situations. And I hated having to make life and death decisions. But I made them... maybe a dozen times a day. Some made those decisions a hundred times a day... maybe two hundred... sometimes in an hour. You never know you're right until after the fact. But I'm still here... and I can live with myself.
2007-09-22 18:22:54 · answer #1 · answered by gugliamo00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont see the point of the mercenaries in Iraq, in the first place.
reconstruction of Iraq is not about riding around in the armored truck to drink te with local representatives, being protected more than a movie star back in the US. if th mercs are needed there, then they should help their objectives to reach destination withou shooting, and avoid confrontation, not to shoot the straight way through.
2007-09-23 02:25:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well lets see before you pass a verdict on something you weren't at and didn't see! Politics? Everything is politics! Where have you been?
If we weren't in Iraq, who had nothing to do with terrorist or 9/11, we wouldn't have all those dead people.
You look at this video and you tell me if they are just guards?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqM4tKPDlR8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUEULWEP9c&mode=related&search=
2007-09-23 01:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Noone forced them to go there. They are well paid, some far better than enlistees in the regular army. They have all the support that can be provided them by the most powerful nation on earth. Their opponents are mere irregulars with secondhand small arms. They are mercenaries in all but name. I have no sympathy for them whatsoever.
2007-09-23 01:19:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am in Iraq. I don't see why we can't expect people who volunteered to come to Iraq to follow the protocol governing their job in Iraq. I also don't see why a private security company was filling a role the military police should have been fulfilling.
2007-09-23 01:19:25 · answer #5 · answered by DOOM 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I certainly don't trust the mass media outlets to tell the truth. The spin doctors have been working this since the beginning.
2007-09-23 01:14:18 · answer #6 · answered by sirtanaka 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't care about the media. I would have a job to do and the media isn't my job.
Killing is and if the Bastards would fight. buisness would be great.
2007-09-23 02:55:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blackwater has grunts, need leaders.
2007-09-23 01:17:18 · answer #8 · answered by bobanalyst 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋