I just got back home from my vacation and I see that my first diary got slammed. Wow. I guess the kos family requires strict adherence to uber-left wing viewpoints. Well, I'm not uber-left. I'm uber libertarian - screw you loonies of the right and your counterparts of the left. And, as far as the dietary choices comments go, I was THERE in CA when some wackos decided to go and make serving horse meat illegal - and did. Now, I think it is absolutely disgusting to heat horse meat. But why go and make it against the law to serve? If nuac pham and tam nguyen want to serve some horse meat in some ethic dish at their hole in the wall restaurant, why should it be against the law? Once again - the only thing that loonie right and loonie left fascists have in common is their love running to mamma gov't to go and make something they don't like illegal. And love to ass-kicking annie for seeing my point about both parties being the same divide-and-conquer masterminds making bitches of us all. Now, onto the murderous thugs who work for Blackwater...
I just heard on NPR out of UNC that the Iraqis FINALLY have had enough of these Blackwater thugs. It's about time they grew some nut and told us to get these mercs the hell outta their country. I just love how we do war these days. We let boys stand around and get shot trying to act like policemen in a lawless land full of ethnic sectarian violence, but the minute they screw up, everyone who wants to make points on what a fiasco this is throws them under the bus and wants court-martials. Meanwhile, these guys run around shooting at anything that moves and have absolutely no accountability. None. One of these murderers gets drunk and shoots the #2 man in Iraq's security chief and then gets to stagger over to our embassy where Blackwater sends him home. No charges, nothing. It's sickening. These guys are above the law, plain and simple. The only thing that might get them in trouble is voting Democratic or blowing a whistle on some other thug, I suppose. What is this country coming to when to run a war you have to hire out mercenaries to do the dirty work so young teens getting paid 15 bucks an hour are available as human IED detectors?
I'm thinking that maybe - just maybe - if there is a god, and she hasn't abandoned us completely, this could gin up enough of an "enough already" sentiment in Iraq to make them stop fighting each other and start telling us that they'd rather get along than have Blackwater running around for one more day shooting innocents. Now, I hate party hack dems and republicans about as much humanly possible. But if some country were to invade to "free" us from the dictator bush, and then ended up letting some corporate mercenaries run around shooting anyone that got near their politicians when they made dog and pony show trips to my country, I'd sure as hell learn to buddy up with them and show some political progress just to get the murderers the heck out of my land. I hope this is the catalyst for some real change in Iraqi politics. Speaking of my country..
I love my country, but at this point I'm finally getting around to the notion that I hope we get a black eye. I believe in right and wrong - and brother, letting people get away with murder because we need security for diplomats makes us just plain wrong. I know some want us to win or lose based on how their goddamn party may make out for the even in the next election, but I want to lose on principle. The same sentiments that makes a good father glad his son fails a test if he gets caught cheating. If we can't win a war without letting a company run it for us, than maybe we should consider drafting those trigger happy morons who work for the Blackwater company and make them play by the same rules, answer to the same international laws, and, oh, get paid the same 15 lousy bucks an hour like the rest of our enlisted. Please god, let this be the thread that unravels the war that made my wonderful country slowly become an agent of evil. Now, you people three light-years to the left of me..is that "kos" enough for you?