Blackwater, Enron, Halliburton, KBR… most of the top brands of the Bush administration have been destroyed or devalued. Blackwater Worldwide, with it’s eye on the prize of no-bid contracts to patrol the Mexican border has been rebranded. Hoping to wash away the stains from their homicidal outlawry in Iraq, the killers formerly known as Blackwater became “Xe Worldwide” last week.
Xe Worldwide is ripe for nationalization. The cadre of highly trained security forces would, with a little attitude adjustment, fit nicely into the US Marine Corps. In fact, if the list of indicted Xe Worldwide mercenaries is representative, many of them have already been trained as marines.
Whatever combination of lobbying influence, cronyism and budgetary havoc created by the Bush administration permitted these “service providers” to contract for jobs that should be done by the military, it’s time for a change. It’s time to return our marines to their assignment of protecting embassies, it’s time to return responsibility for government service to the government, and it’s time to roll-up the assets of the crooks who surrounded Bush and let them sort things out through receivership. Where better to start than with his private army?
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