An Article I Stumbled Across

[quiet_screaming]

While I'm aware that the evocative language is meant to incite a response from the reader, I still couldn't help but be pissed off and then very sad as I read this article about Blackwater (a military but not contractor) and their apparent excesses in Iraq. Take a look. At the end where it talks about the impact on one family in particular, I do

Comments

[operations]

For once we agree.

We sent our Military in there. It should have stayed that way. Our military has laws, rules, and a list of 'do nots'.

Mercs only mess up the equation worse.

[childe]

:(

[quiet_screaming]

Did you seriously just respond to this with a frowning emoticon?

[childe]

Everything that I have to say, I've said, if not to you, within your earshot. Even within your deaf earshot.

So, yeah.

[quiet_screaming]

*chuckles*