They are obscuring the truth about Iraq in every way imaginable. First off, they are helping to convince Iraqi resistance that all Americans are legitimate targets. If American civilians are wandering around Iraq with weapons and not subject to US military rules or Iraqi law, why should American citizens be anything but targets. If you're already angry about having no electricity, no water, and no security, it doesn't take much to make that leap in logic.
Blackwater doesn't like their employees to be called mercenaries. Can anyone come up with a better word? A mercenary is someone hired to work for a foreign army. They aren't working for the US army and they aren't working for the Iraqi army. I guess if I saw them kill my neighbors I wouldn't be splitting hairs. Maybe they are their own army, or does that give them too much legitimacy?
Frankly, we need to stop hiring mercenaries. The US military budget is half of the entire world's military budget, yet we are paying outrageous sums to paid brigands operating outside of the law.
If elected I will introduce a bill to require that the military do jobs that belong to the military. And that includes ALL jobs that Blackwater is doing.
Black water bring to mind swamp water, with who knows what hiding beneath the surface. We've recently seen a glimpse of what's beneath the water, and it's not pretty. Blackwater Insecurity is being used to hide the truth about Iraq.
