Falsehoods in Iraq shooting unpunished

USA Today by Kelley, Matt | Apr. 1, 2009 (Investigative Report)

The top security official at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq refused to punish Blackwater security guards for making false statements about an unjustified 2005 shooting in Baghdad because he didn't want to lower the morale of those contracted to work security, according to newly released State Department records. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 7, 2009

The state department was reluctant to negatively affect the morale of crazed murderers? The article is so mater of fact, it is hard to capture their degree of complicity in ok-ing the lying and implicitly the murders.

The reckless mercenary millionaires will just shift over from xe/blackwater to work for Triple Canopy. Will the state department be reluctant to negatively affect their moral-free morale?

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