If you've never heard of Franklin Graham (Billy's wacko love child), you should. That boy has the Elmer Gantry schtick down cold.
Elsewhere in cyberspace, Ted Koppel thinks it would be a good idea if Dear Leader went on and just made his
NEW YORK Little known to the American public, there are some 50,000 private contractors in Iraq, providing support for the U.S. military, among other activities. So why not go all the way, hints Ted Koppel in a New York Times op-ed on Monday, and form a real "mercenary army"?
Such a move involving what he calls "latter-day Hessians" would represent, he writes, "the inevitable response of a market economy to a host of seemingly intractable public policy and security problems..."
Let's forget all about those Geneva Conventions. They're for chocolate-making countries anyway. Hessians and Americans mixed really well during the Revolutionary War.
I'm sure Dear Leader has plans for them.
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Didn't the Hessians fight for the British? It was a Hessian camp that Geo. Washington attacked on Christmas Eve, no?
At least the mercs have enough fire discipline not to shoot children in cold blood.
Not so, according to the Iraqis.
After all, the insurgency got kicked off in Fallujah in reaction to Blackwater mercs.
Of course, after white phosphorous retaliation it's hard to determine which bodies were women and children.
And don't forget the death squads. You don't suppose any of them would be some of the ex-Conta mercs don Negroponte brought to Iraq? They're quite used to leaving no witnessess.
But they'll be working here soon enough if don Negroponte has his way.
The mercenaries are disciplined enough to usually hide what they do to innocents- except for the occasional trophy video.
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