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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-01-08 11:27 PM Original message |
Report: Blackwater buys Brazilian-made fighter plane |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-01-08 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. How many is a Brazilian...? |
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Ferd Berfle (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 07:36 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. LOL !!!!! I never heard that one before |
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wildbilln864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-01-08 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. I read about this almost a year ago. nt |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-01-08 11:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Same here - guess it's getting reported on now |
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StClone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-01-08 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. Future: Rouge Black Water vs U.S. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-01-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. So many sci fi writers have written on this theme |
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Regret My New Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-01-08 11:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. sue blackwater for copyright infringement? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-01-08 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. And USA today reports a one year old NEWS STORY NOW????????????? |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 07:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
21. Somebody needed something to make a deadline. nt |
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Algorem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-01-08 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
7. maybe Cheney not satisfied with Secret Service protecting him when |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
9. We simply cannot allow Corporate America to build an army and arm themselves in this manner. |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 12:36 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I agree, and I think that the Bush-planned Oil War in South America may go private, |
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JohnyCanuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 01:47 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. See what they did in Guatemala to control the banana industry (Youtube video) |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 12:22 PM Response to Reply #10 |
38. If they do go private, Obama (and Congress) can cut off their corporate legs... |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Amen. n/t |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 02:19 AM Response to Original message |
12. Turboprop? Useful only for ground strikes, then. |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 03:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Exactly. Not for combat, but to bomb and strafe the shit out of uppity peasants. |
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Shipwack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 04:34 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. It all hinges on one thing... |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 05:14 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Amerikan Idol is the one thing they dare not take away. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 10:35 AM Response to Reply #13 |
31. May I suggest a down-cranking of the paranoia? |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 11:27 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. No you may not. The validity of paranoia is inversely proportional to the openness and freedom |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 08:08 AM Response to Reply #12 |
23. I don't think this is for use overseas |
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salguine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 05:42 AM Response to Original message |
16. Geez, I couldn't imagine that they might possibly use those for "crowd pacification" here at home... |
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wmbrew0206 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 07:00 AM Response to Original message |
17. This bothers me for a completely different reason than anyone here |
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balantz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 08:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
26. I knew something important was missing here. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 10:33 AM Response to Reply #17 |
30. The military isn't in the habit of letting civilians issue orders. |
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wmbrew0206 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 11:36 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. When a private security firm is involved the lines get blurred... |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 11:26 AM Response to Reply #17 |
32. They ordered a 2 seat trainer |
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wmbrew0206 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 11:46 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. There is no real point for buying this plane to teach someone to fly it. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 12:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
36. hmmm... |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #17 |
40. Listen to the man talking sense, here. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 09:26 PM Response to Reply #17 |
42. What's currency training? (nt) |
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wmbrew0206 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 10:20 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. The skills it takes to call in an air strike are perishable, so the military makes sure that JTACs |
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Eagle_Eye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-03-08 06:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
44. If Blackwater needs FACs, they are really behind the times |
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wmbrew0206 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-04-08 07:59 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. To my knowledge, GAAS has not sold any armed UAV's to anyone outside of the US Air Force |
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Ferd Berfle (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
19. YOUR Tax dollars at work n/t |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
20. They bought ONE plane for $4.5 million ? wtf, they plan to trick it out ? |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 07:59 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Pimp Your Outdated Turbo Prop Bomber - All the kids are doing it. |
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Sam Ervin jret (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
24. Blackwater will be the "secret service" for all the war criminals that come from this administration |
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Theres-a (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 08:56 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Paraguay. nt |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
25. and WHY are we raiding reight wing state militias again?? they forgot to become a corporation? |
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ogsbee (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
28. Blackwater, the intended treason force -- this is bad news |
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windbreeze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
29. This is just plain scary, for more than one reason...n/t |
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DemEyeDick (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
37. This is scary stuff |
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wmbrew0206 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-02-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. "Security Firms" orginated out of Executive Outcomes |
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