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Originally Posted by bomelia
Hey Notch! Great job and be safe.
What is your take on the Blackwater "scandal"? There was another story yesterday about a private security firm shooting up a car with two women in it (would not stop approaching despite repeated warnings).
Mike
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See, alot of people don't understand what their job is and how hard it is. Granted, many of these private security agencies over here are have some people who aren't all there if you know what I mean. I mean, think about it, they're coming over here "to serve and protect," and their death rate is 37%!!
Now, knowing that their are suicide bombers, car bombs, and IED's, what would you do in thier situation? You have a convoy which you are dutied to protect. A car is approaching your convoy, which has signs all over it clearly stating to "STAY BACK OR DEADLY FORCE WILL BE USED!!!" So you fire a couple warning shots and some flares to warn this car that you WILL shoot them. yet they just keep coming. You only have a few moments to react to such acts before you are endangering the entire convoy. At that point you ahve to make a judgement call, "is this car loaded with explosives? Are these people trying to distract you so that you don't see the guy standing ahead with a rocket waiting to attack the convoy? Maybe they're trying to push you to go faster into a trap? or maybe they're just too damn stupid to head the warnings and signs?" Now all these thoughts rush through your head faster than you can read what I wrote. You have seconds to react. I have been trained, to fire when you feel you are in danger or threatened (that was military training). these guys have been trained the same except they have to keep the danger away from the entire convoy. MANY of these people who work for these contracted security agencies are prior military. te same people who were here just a year ago as a soldier and now they come back out as civilians to try to jump ahead in life after the military. Many of them have been in the military so long, they don't know anything else. I like the headlines today "SIX FIGURE BONUSES RETAIN COMMANDOS"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/...lLmSxadD.s0NUE
IMHO, if the Iraqi government wants to continue it's push to eliminate these security firms... we might as well pack up and go home. Every one of those Iraqi government officials will be dead within a week and this country will be controlled by whoever Iran wants it to be controlled by! There will be MASS murder (as if there isn't already) and the Shiite's will rain over the Sunni's since the Shiite's have all the backing from Iran.
I WILL say that sometimes the defensive is taken too far and people are killed that don't have to be. Kind of like dropping an attomic bomb... errr.. oh ya, we did that! Doubt there was any "collateral damage" in that incident.....
God help us if a Democrat is elected!
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