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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 01:58 PM
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So is blackwater our modern version of Rome's Praetorian Guard?
does the next prez have to win their favor in order to get anything done overseas?
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Hydra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 02:00 PM
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1. What are we doing overseas other than raping countries with oil?
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 02:00 PM
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2. "Yuppers - smirk, smirk, smirk" - Commander AWOL
Edited on Tue Oct-02-07 02:02 PM by SpiralHawk
"We chickenhawk republcion homelander cronies needs us some muscle, and Blackwater be it -- smirk, smrik, smirk"

- Commander AWOL
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 02:03 PM
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3. more like Der Fuhrer's brownshirts...
Answering to no one, accountable to no one except the supreme leader.
Advancing ideology at gunpoint.
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 02:07 PM
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4. No, that would be the CIA
Blackwater is more like the British Empire's Hessian mercenaries.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 02:09 PM
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5. Republican Guard
Saddam and his Ba'athists had one. Bush figures he needs one too.

In Germany they called it the S.S., I think.
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