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Would that it were so fsev41. Unfortunately the "iron triangle" corruption in the Pentagon is now deeply rooted in both parties.
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Democracy Now
Blackwater: From the Nisour Square Massacre to the Future of the Mercenary Industry
... AMY GOODMAN: That was Barack Obama.
JEREMY SCAHILL: This is interesting. I mean, this is one of the more interesting exchanges I’ve seen with a presidential candidate on this issue. I mean, it almost never gets raised at all.
Barack Obama—this is the reality about this. Barack Obama understands this issue extremely well. His staff has been on top of this for quite some time. He—what he said to you is true. He did introduce the legislation in the Senate that has become the Democrats’ official legislation on these private security companies, and he did it eight months before Nisour Square. So, clearly, Barack Obama is someone who has been following this very closely. He understands it very intimately.
What’s interesting—and you raised this with him—is that he won’t take the step toward actually trying to ban these companies. Representative Jan Schakowsky and Senator Bernie Sanders have put forward legislation called the Stop Outsourcing Security Act in the Congress, and Barack Obama has said he’s not going to come onboard and support that legislation. ....
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/2/blackwater_je...
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