As for your last bit… didn’t you mean,
†And Iran isn’t that sure that it can’t CAN pull off supporting Kurds to take areas of Iraq (oil) and Turkey (water) and back off of Iran, plus gain a valuable ally.
Your ’ally,’ I assume = ’Kurdistan’?

BTW: Haven’t followed it too much, but IIRC one of the real ’feats’ of globalization has been the (ahem…!) ’purchase’ of utilities like water districts and water treatment plants. Enronization of water resources, so to speak. You’ll be shocked (schocked!) to learn these ’privitization’ schemes trace back to Reagan/Bush, and primarily Bush41. In other words… if you’re thirsty, we just raised the prices. A lot.

Friends who recently traveled in the old USSR have commented a number of times at how appalled and alarmed they were to see Russians having to purchase bottled water (and Pepsi) on the streets. Evidently, in the cities they visited, the water systems aren’t so skookum. Wonder who owns the bottled water concessions? (I presume it’s PutinCo, but no time to trace it down.)

So yeah, are the Turks going to let the Kurds get the water resources?
Pffffttt…..
And Santa in his bunny suit is going to be bring me my Easter Eggs.

Exactly why Turkey will never agree to an independent Kurdistan – the earmarked area sought by the Kurds would transfer control of waterways. And if the Biden et al solution of dividing Iraq three ways took place, the now independent Iraqi Kurdish areas would foment a push for the same in Turkey. And Iran isn’t that sure that it can’t pull off supporting Kurds to take areas of Iraq (oil) and Turkey (water) and back off of Iran, plus gain a valuable ally.

All a difficult balancing act.

First, I wonder if Blackwater has any contractual obligation to report injury or death caused by their gunfire or is their only obligation to deliver the package safely? The data collection process, the total 56, is worth inquiring about.

If â€State Department has counted 56 shooting incidents involving Blackwater guards in Iraq this year†means â€incidents in which Blackwater security guards killed Iraqisâ€, that amounts to 1 Iraqi every five days. In other words, it’s a common occurrence.

Since the majority of Iraqis think its ok to kill American occupiers, I don’t think they much care whether the Iraqi killed by Blackwater was an insurgent or a civilian. In other words, the justification and distinction we make about killing an insurgent is of no consequence to the Iraqi people – these are the people we claim we are occupying in order to protect. You can imagine why they might have a hard time believing that is our objective.

Shit Stain Jodi.

There are so many murders by Blackwater that cameras in vehicles wouldn’t do a damn thing to capture a high percent of them.

Like everything else Rice does, 10,000 expensive cowboys subject to no laws murdering scores of civilians. Besides any purported supervision of the mercanaries, which will be all facade, they are going to soon have to deal with a paradigm shift that they are now going to have a bounty on its head in Iraq and elsewhere.

They should never have been there and the should have been removed long ago. All 3 companies got billions to train Iraqui police and the result has been a total failure.

Like hell it’s the war. It’s more Bush incompetence hemorrhaging billions to companies who are major screwups. What you naively and ridiculously dubbed †a good job†is one of the most conspicuous examples of waste and fraud in the fiasco in Iraq that is the most conspicous example of waste and fraud (money and lives) in U.S. history.

A significant number of Blackwater and other mercanaries are going to be hanged and beheaded given their eggregious behavior and they get a lot more IEDs planted that kill American soldiers in response to their murdering with no repercussions.

Get someone who’s an adult to read and explain this to you.

Reports Assail State Department on Iraq Security

Jodi either you’re high or age 12 or both. I get it. You’re one of the low IQ token Colter or Malkin clones who spews idiocy on blogs like this. Malkin who is Filipino argued for profiling and persecuting Asian Americans yesterday. If someone pops a cap in your head tomorrow while drunk, it’s okay for them to go free isn’t it? That’s what happened to the murderer Andrew Moonen. I’m glad he keeps going to the Middle East, because I suspect some people may want to have a little talk with him there soon.

Report Details Shooting by Drunken Blackwater Worker

Billions are being hemorrhage to cowboys like Blackwater, Dyn Corp, and Triple Canopy who are helping to get a lot of soldiers blown up in a place they should have never been.

These 3 companies are doing a LOL â€good job†of stealing and killing innocent people, and what they’re doing should be handled by the military subject to US laws and the Uniform Code of Justice rather than subject to in fact, not a damn thing.

Paying 2 grand a day for thousands of mercanaries is simply imbecilic.

â€At the same time, a government audit expected to be released Tuesday says that records documenting the work of DynCorp International, the State Department’s largest contractor, are in such disarray that the department cannot say “specifically what it received†for most of the $1.2 billion it has paid the company since 2004 to train the police in Iraq.â€

That’s a â€real good job†if you’re delusional.

â€But in presenting its recommendations to Ms. Rice in a 45-minute briefing on Monday, the four-member panel found serious fault with virtually every aspect of the department’s security practices, especially in and around Baghdad, where Blackwater has responsibility.â€

This was while Condi was trying to figure out where to get shoes on the upper East side of Manhatten.

â€The Washington Post came up with the paper work.†And they found the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus sitting on it.

has done a good job. No clients have been killed. That is none!

Blackwater has sacrificed greatly for it’s clients. Thirty Blackwater contractors have been killed.

Blackwater asked for video cameras in the vehicles several years ago. The State Department was going to go along with the idea, but then they came back and said that the State Department’s legal department had to look further at it. The guy who just resigned at the State Department claimed last week that that had not happened. The Washington Post came up with the paper work.

Not wanting America in Iraq is one thing I agree on, but this nitpicking is nothing but a distraction.

It is the war stupid!

Reports Assail State Department on Iraq Security

Sorry for the mispelling of personnel.

US Foriegn policy could not be worse, and like Fredo Gonzales at DOJ, she is infinitely out of her depth. On a country by country basis, the US couldn’t have gotten a worse result based on her blunders and Bushian lazy and nihilistic approach to foreign policy.

The fact remains that Blackwater perssonel, in particular have commited murder under the worst of circumstances and remain unpunished, and the idiot who was drunk and killed the body guard at the Christmas party–a Bushian variation on putting on a lampshade and pinching the wrong ass has not been punished, and the DOJ, specifically their clown agency FBI is doing their usual legal version of masturbation aka nothing. They are investigating a murder that unquestionably took place into infinity.

I think these articles are a metaphor for how moronic Condi has been:

State Dept. Official Resigns; Oversaw Blackwater and Other Private Guards

State Department Use of Contractors Leaps in 4 Years

Suicide Is Not Painless

Waxman: Contractor’s re-hiring raises ’serious questions’

Rice: Mideast Peace Plan in Jeopardy