Iraqi government drafts bill lifting contractor immunity.
By on Oct 30th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Iraqi government drafts bill lifting contractor immunity.
Following reports that the State Department had granted immunity to disgraced Blackwater security guards, the Iraqi cabinet on Tuesday “approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to Parliament.” However, an “Iraqi government spokesman suggested that the new law may not cover Blackwater guards if they were defined by the State Department as an extension of the multinational forces in Iraq, rather than private security guards.”
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Hrm…
If they’re considered an extension of our forces now, does that mean we can draft them up on war crimes?
October 30th, 2007 at 2:46 pmDear Iraqi Puppet Goverment:
Good luck with that.
Sincerely,
Leftside Annie
October 30th, 2007 at 2:46 pm2 – HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Oh dear, that’s funny. ;o)
October 30th, 2007 at 2:47 pmYeah right!
Basicall , any US entity can slaughter Iraqis unlimited until bush is out of office.
These Neocon scum love to execute brown people – theyre all guilty to republicans….
or God would have made them white christians.
October 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm#2 LOL
October 30th, 2007 at 2:49 pmCan i have some of those drugs you’re on?!
A multinational force? I thought they were just hired to protect dignitaries. Somebody better get her story straight. Besides, it’s their country, they can do what they want. If they want to arrest Blackwater, what is the US going to do? Bomb them?
October 30th, 2007 at 2:50 pm#6, hil_1, Neoturds don’t need drugs; they were born batshit crazy!
October 30th, 2007 at 2:50 pmand miraculously they will come to what ever conclusion bu$h co. tells them to.
just a show…. (iraq to world: “see…. we ARE sovereign.”)
move along, nothing to see here….
October 30th, 2007 at 2:51 pmThe Iraqi is as stable and “free” as the puppet governements were when I was in Vietnam. Good Luck with that one! And if you push it too hard, Darth still has his shotgun loaded.
In fact, if they ever did go to trial, all the Blackwater thugs would be carrying their weapons in the courtroom with them.
October 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pmThe Iraqi Parliament reminds me a lot of the US Congress. They posture a lot, but never really stand up to Boy George.
October 30th, 2007 at 2:53 pmWhy dont they draft a bill lifting world suffering and draft a bill that makes eveybody happy…. as long as theyre passing pipe dream legislation.
Seriously, I’m appaled how under the ruse of Liberation, freedom , democracy, Americans can now kill Iraqis at will….
But wait… they have their purple fingers now – that makes it OK
October 30th, 2007 at 2:53 pm#7, tomazulob – Hate to be the one to say it, but that’s exactly what they’ll do. Anyone who doesn’t fall in line with our supreme empire and just shut up and do what they’re told will feel the wrath of our increasingly busy bomber pilots. And that includes entire countries.
October 30th, 2007 at 2:55 pmJust ask Iran
October 30th, 2007 at 2:55 pmWTF??? Is he trying to give the State Department a way out of this?
October 30th, 2007 at 3:00 pmIt’s good to see the Iraqi government showing independence. It shows that freedom and democracy are growing by the day in a country once dominated by a Dictator. Maybe that will stop some of the talk that it is an illigitimate government just doing what the U.S. tells them to do.
Comment by TCDon
The problem is, stinky troll don, that our government is not going to let them get away with this. If our government respected the sovereignty of the Iraqi Government, Blackwater would not be in Iraq now. The Iraqi government told Blackwater to leave and our government told them to stick it in their ear. The day the US stops interfering with what the Iraqi government wants to do and the day that the Iraqi government starts doing what its citizens want it to do is the day I will call the Iraqi government legitimate. Until that time, they are nothing more than pawns of the US Government who seems to think they own Iraq.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:07 pmDon’t worry – if signing statements work to circumvent the US leglislature, I’m sure that The Chimperor will listen intently and obey the Iraqui leglislature……..
October 30th, 2007 at 3:07 pmWTF??? Is he trying to give the State Department a way out of this?
Comment by IgnoranceIsNotBliss
Of course they are, Maliki is still Bush’s poodle. On the other hand, if the State Department declares the Blackwater people as an extension of the multinational forces in Iraq, rather than private security guards, then they have been lying to us all along and I suspect that Congress will be a little miffed that Bush is running his own private army in Iraq, not just providing security for it’s diplomats.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:09 pmIraqi government drafts bill lifting contractor immunity.
Chimpy deliberately and blatantly ignores the laws of his own country, as well as international law. What makes you think your law is even going to slow him down?
October 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pmBlackwater is part of whatever entity that will get them out of trouble, or not a part of any entity. Kinda like the office of VP.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:36 pmAs long as the debate about Blackwater’s immunity can drag on for another year or so, it don’t matter.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:36 pm#2 – Yes, just feed at the trough of lies that Rush provides for you. It’s all you can eat, you know…
October 31st, 2007 at 12:13 am