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DD, It's a PMC.
Check up on it. Includes Pat also.In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
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"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.Comment
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Private Military Company? So what? What's illegal about that?I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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I have no problems with mercs, but they shoudln't be able to operate with immunity.Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
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This I agree with. I am not defending the actions of individual memebers. If a Microsoft employee murders his wife screw him too.but they shoudln't be able to operate with immunity."The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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There's only 1.5 mercs in Iraq??Originally posted by Patroklos
Yeah, I think they make up like .0001 percent of the US security apparatus now
A friend of mine just got out of the army. He was serving in Iraq as a driver. He grumbled that too often the guy driving the next truck over was a "private contractor" making four to five times as much as the soldiers.
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Who said anything about Iraq?There's only 1.5 mercs in Iraq??"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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Blackwater in a backwater...Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Blackwater in hot water...THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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If they are a security firm do they do shopping mall security?:
Blackwater in Bluewater...
Oh the possibilities are endless
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Things hit the fan right after the 82nd moved in. They left when the city had entirely turned against them. This is before other attempts at pacification.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
The current Iraq war... which one have you been following?
I mean really, Fallujah was considered the big holdout. Perhaps it was the media covering for the Bush Administration, but it made it seem fairly isolated (not the only area of trouble, but one of the few). Until we tried to 'pacify' the city things didn't seem to hit the fan."Yay Apoc!!!!!!!" - bipolarbear
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"Apocalype was a great game." - DrSpike
"In Apoc, I had one soldier who lasted through the entire game... was pretty cool. I like apoc for that reason, the soldiers are a bit more 'personal'." - General LuddComment
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Which is still a Fallujah problem. I'm taking about the events that galvanized a lot of Iraqis in other parts of the country against the occupiers and made them realize the US wasn't going to be all that grand.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Iraq realized that it cannot just tell all the security protection for American diplomats and officials to leave. Iraq has backed off its statements.Comment
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DD, PMC's aren't illegal per se. But there are lots of legal questions concerning their action. Such as, who do they answer to in case of war crimes, since they aren't under the army control.
Saying that they still have to answer the local laws isn't valid, since in places of war, local laws aren't usually like very existing.
So, what you get is private and independent players, and in case they enage in illegal activities such as war crimes, who is responsible? How do you take them to court and what court is that?
etc etc. There's lots of questions open. So hells yeah there's controversy. And when it comes to mercs, there's always controversy, the whole issue of mercenary activity is controversial.
Notice, I'm not saying PMCs are a bad idea, I'm saying that they're controversial and that Blackwater sucks and is the worst PMC out there with the least possible professionality.In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.Comment
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Based off of what?Notice, I'm not saying PMCs are a bad idea, I'm saying that they're controversial and that Blackwater sucks and is the worst PMC out there with the least possible professionality."The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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