{"id":199028,"date":"2007-09-18T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/18\/iraqis-order-blackwater-out-of-iraq\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T10:11:00","slug":"iraqis-order-blackwater-out-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/18\/iraqis-order-blackwater-out-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqis Order Blackwater out of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is where we get to fish or cut bait time.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004196.php\">The Iraqi Government* has told Blackwater to get out<\/a>, and has suspended their license to operate.<\/p>\n<p>This is not surprising.  They are a bunch of trigger happy goons who have immunity from Iraqi law and the military&#8217;s UCMJ.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing here is that Blackwater, nor (IIRC) any of of the other mercenaries employed by the US, are operating under an Iraqi license.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Blackwater is operating under a State Department contract, and while this may give them a measure of diplomatic immunity, it also allows them to be declared personae non grata, and forced to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that Malaki will be told to pound sand, and thus the government will be revealed to be a puppet of the US formed primarily to allocate oil resources to American oil companies.<br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/><sup>*<\/sup>Yes, I know that &#8220;Iraqi Government&#8221; is currently an oxymoron.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is where we get to fish or cut bait time. The Iraqi Government* has told Blackwater to get out, and has suspended their license to operate. This is not surprising. They are a bunch of trigger happy goons who have immunity from Iraqi law and the military&#8217;s UCMJ. The interesting thing here is that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,964,1063,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}