Pentagon Awards Blackwater New Contract

Despite occurrences in Iraq, the Pentagon has awarded another contract to Blackwater Security…

“A U.S.-based private security firm received a contract worth up to 92 million dollars from the Department of Defense amid hard questions about its involvement in two separate violent incidents in Iraq.

“Blackwater has been a contractor in the past with the department and could certainly be in the future,” said the U.S.’s top-ranking military officer, General Peter Pace, at an afternoon press conference here.

The future arrived just two hours later when the Pentagon released a new list of contracts – Presidential Airways, the aviation unit of parent company Blackwater, was awarded the contract to fly Department of Defense passengers and cargo between locations around central Asia.”

And the President of the United States has the audacity to condemn the Burmese government for their conduct? Jesus. Maybe they should take a page from the Bush administration’s playbook and just outsource their blood work. That way they can claim it beyond their control and shrug it off as ‘unfortunate’.

If there is one man that I’ll not listen to lecture others on human rights, it’s George Bush – nor any member of his administration. As long as the facility at Guantanamo exists, as long as black sites exist, as long as rendition exists, and until the United States is held internationally responsible for its war crimes and human rights violations with regards to The War On Terror and the war in Iraq – not a snowball’s chance in hell.