Come on David, go back and read your own stuff. It appears to me you're going OTT far more lately. Check this: "Beck is deliberately employing coded and menacing language..." and this: "What is the difference between Beck’s decree and that of Rwanda’s genocidal leaders in the 1990s?" one more: "...what separates Beck’s screed from a bin Laden fatwa?" Are you in your own coded way really saying Beck wants to incite a bloody uprising? Do you really see no difference in his ranting for ratings and machete hacking or human bombs? Mellow out. Beck's hyperbole and that of others like …
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Perhaps the basic problem with these POWs is that rather than a group on enemy combatants captured by our own soldiers, we allowed Iraqis to hand over many who they caught. We have little way of knowing whose enemies they truly were, but after detention we can safely assume they are now our enemies. "Obama claims the right to perpetually detain any person deemed to be a threat without interference from the courts." In all wars prior to Viet Nam combatants captured while out of uniform were simply shot by both sides. Today in the Middle East, our opposition shoots and …
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May I suggest the author become part of the solution and simply volunteer to provide security :-) Seriously, unless there is coercion to hire these private contractors I see nothing wrong here. If we sent troops to do the job they would be accuse of the kind of operation from the 1920s and 1930s when the US Marines were sent to central and South America to protect US corporations. It is to be expected that looting would be a problem, is it not?
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Blackhorse, "Why would a company like Blackwater , who has been intimately involved in the genocide in Iraq , be interested in “SAVING ” Haiti from itself…Blackwater and all of these other military contractors are not in Haiti for the good they can do , they are there as ’ disaster capitalist “..." Yes, they are there to make money. My only point is that unless this was forced on Haiti there is no real issue. The question, I guess, is: Who hired them and is paying them? Can anyone be expected to police the country free of charge? You say …
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The problem is not that Democrats no longer represent the working man — the problem is both parties are, and have been for some time now, representing only special interests with big dollar lobbyists pushing for them. Whether big corporations or big unions are the favored few—ordinary people, both blue collar and white collar, have been losing ground since the 1970s. Congress spends crazily on big ticket items, but whatever programs go to the populace in general, Congress will never stand in line or stand a chance of ever lowering their own standard of living to that of the "ordinary" US …
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