State to Blackwater: I Think We Should See Other Contractors

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State to Blackwater: I Think We Should See Other Contractors
By Spencer Ackerman - Oct 18, 2007
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004493.php


Douglas Feith once reportedly quipped that the State Department should be called the Department of Nice. To Blackwater, however, it might be better termed the Department of Passive-Aggressive. According to the AP, State won't exactly ask Blackwater to leave Iraq, but in true awkward-breakup fashion, it's indicating that Blackwater should get out if it wants to do the honorable thing:

Blackwater's work escorting U.S. diplomats outside the protected Green Zone in Baghdad expires in May, .....