Blackwater guards found guilty in Iraq shootings

[Wells]

Isn't this the type of people Bill O'Reilly wanted to hire to put boots on the ground against ISIS?

He'd say no, but I doubt it would be possible not to.

[Jackmoves]

Have you ever been in a war zone? Killing 30 people in self defense is extremely possible. I am not guaranteeing it was self defense, but the numbers don't automatically make it suspicious. This isn't like shooting 30 people with handguns, and these weren't police, these guys use a significant amount of firepower, and machine guns are a lot more dangerous in real life than in hollywood.

Oh, and I really doubt the US government is going to stop using mercenaries because of this, right now Blackwater is in deep trouble for this, but the US Government is staying relatively clean from bad press from this, I don't see why that is going to discourage them from using it.

Well these guys mowed down unarmed children, women and men who ran away from them/took cover. They(Blackwater) reported shots were fired on them but... US Military could find no such evidence. Dudes got spooked for some reason and killed a lot of innocent people.

Men from the U.S. Army's First Cavalry Division arrived at Nisoor Square moments after the shooting. They found no shell casings from AK-47s (the kind used by insurgents or the Iraqi police), but clangs of casings from American-made weaponry. The First Cavalry concluded in a report that there was "no enemy activity involved" and that the shooting was an unprovoked "criminal event," according to Fainaru's reporting.

[prwraith]

I don't mind mercenaries, if we claim people still need killing I'd be a hypocrite to have a moral objection to them and not the army.

[Bakis]

Hang them high, too bad (but as always) the big fishes behind them are safe..

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Well these guys mowed down unarmed children, women and men who ran away from them/took cover. They(Blackwater) reported shots were fired on them but... US Military could find no such evidence. Dudes got spooked for some reason and killed a lot of innocent people.

The insurgents could have swept up all the brass they used to hide the evidence, HAH! Who the fuck am I kidding?

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Mercs are usually army rejects or people who can't handle authority but are still interested in a military career.

Where did you get this crap from? Most mercs nowadays have Military backgrounds.

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So why aren't they in the military still? Kicked out? Punched a seargent? etc etc etc?

Left for various reasons, their contract could be up, they may have been sick of the bureaucracy and the bullshit, maybe they realised they can get 5 times the pay in the private sector while doing shorter hours in better conditions.

[Zvinny]

So why aren't they in the military still? Kicked out? Punched a seargent? etc etc etc?

For every hour of you actually doing your job in the military, you spend weeks sweeping floors, fixing equipment, sitting through trainings and bowing down to officers. Then you go into combat with subpar government issued equipment, and are paid shit for doing so.

Mercenaries get better equipment, don't need to do the shit work, and make a whole hell of a ton of money. I've known plenty of people who got out and went into private firms, and all are much happier and better off for having done so.