Let me just tell everyone what will happen with this gem. There will be a lot of wailing and wringing of hands because GW was in office when Blackwater went to Iraq. They will call GW a war criminal.Highly trained personnel employed with the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide sometimes operated side by side with CIA field officers in Iraq and Afghanistan as the agency undertook missions to kill or capture members of insurgent groups in those countries, according to a former government official and a source familiar with the operations.
The actions taken by the private personnel went beyond the protective role specified in a classified Blackwater contract with the CIA and included active participation in raids overseen by CIA or special forces personnel, these sources said. They emphasized that roles and responsibilities often are blurred or altered in a battlefield setting, and that Blackwater personnel were drawn into the operations on an ad-hoc basis because they were present and had the necessary skills
In the end, Obama will just copy this like everything else he has copied from Bush's anti terror playbook and Libs will be suddenly alright with everything in the World.
