Excited to Put Lives on the (Bottom) Line [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
"Blackwater USA [3], one of the government's top private [military] contractors [4] in Iraq and Afghanistan, leads its 'Blackwater Tactical Weekly' email newsletter this week with an all-caps, all-bold exultation: 'Bush Wins, Four More Years!! Hooyah!!'" reports The Hill. Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky [5] remarked that Blackwater "looks forward to four more years of war-time contracts." A Blackwater spokesperson at their PR firm, Alexander Strategy Group [6], responded that Schakowsky is "so desperate to attack the Bush administration [7] that she is smearing civilians who are putting their lives on the line in Iraq so that others may know the freedom we take for granted here at home."