Pentagon outsources War on Drugs to Blackwater

Jan 19, 2012 17:41

For skeptics of how the American government has conducted its so-called War on Drugs, don’t worry, it will soon be out of their hands ( Read more... )

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maisontv January 20 2012, 02:04:25 UTC
Well I don't see how this could possibly go wrong.

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13chapters January 20 2012, 02:15:32 UTC
Okay, this sounds really bad, and it probably IS really bad, but RT is, uh, not a very unbiased news source. (It's owned and run by the Russian government and is super spin-y.) I'd like to read about this from some other media outlets to figure out what's really going on. (Which will probably not be good, nonetheless, if these Blackwater assholes are involved in any way.)

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playedinloops January 20 2012, 14:02:47 UTC
Yeah, I just did some searching and this is the only article I could find that mentions it. Granted, I don't speak Spanish so I didn't search the BBC spanish...

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13chapters January 20 2012, 16:35:08 UTC
Well, my Spanish is good enough that I found the article and I can tell that the first paragraph basically summarizes this story, but not good enough to really analyze what it says.

The only English I can find is still RT. Really weird.

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rufinia January 20 2012, 02:21:13 UTC
Oh my god.

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erunamiryene January 20 2012, 02:33:19 UTC
The US Department of Defense has transferred its armed efforts in Latin and Central America in the War on Drugs to Academi, the private military contractors formerly known as Blackwater

... who the fuck thought of this and had friends who said "OMG DUDE THAT IS THE BEST PLAN YOU'VE HAD SINCE TRYING TO MAKE RICE IN YOUR STOMACH BY EATING RAW RICE AND DRINKING BOILING WATER"?

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disco_balla January 20 2012, 03:15:04 UTC
lolllll

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hirra_chan January 20 2012, 02:34:27 UTC
NO.

I DON'T WANT THEM IN MY COUNTRY.

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