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Your tax dollars at workDear Romi,
Tell Sec. of State Rice to stop using hired mercenaries in Iraq.
Help us win a $100,000 matching grant.
Donate today.
It could be the biggest contribution to peace you ever make.
Mercenaries paid with our tax dollars opened fire on Iraqi civilians over the
weekend. They killed 8 people and shot 13 more. And Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki
said today that the government had counted at least seven other cases in which
the company's guards had killed his citizens with impunity.1
"They are untouchable," one private soldier told the Los Angeles Times.
"They've shot up other private security contractors, Iraqi military, police and
civilians."2
Now the Iraqi government has had enough, and has ordered Blackwater to stop
work in the country. Yesterday morning the Iraqi Prime Minister demanded the
U.S. use someone else to guard their VIP's.3 Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice has promised an investigation, but that's not enough.
Tell Sec. of State Rice to stop using hired mercenaries as state
department guards.
http://act.truemajorityaction.org/o/2/t/50/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=22
Most of Blackwater's work is guarding officials from the State Department. They
are among the most high-profile mercenaries working in Iraq, but hardly the
only ones. An astounding 120,000 "private security contractors" are in Iraq,
48,000 of them working as combat soldiers.4 They get paid far more than real
soldiers, their deaths are not included in the official casualty counts, and
they are essentially accountable to no one, according to state department
officials.
This is still America. We can't hire mercenaries to fire on civilians with no
accountability.
Tell Sec. Rice to put an end to it, and follow the Iraqi government's demand
that Blackwater leave the country.
This has to stop,
Ben Kroetz
TrueMajority.org Online Organizer
1. "Maliki Alleges 7 Cases When Blackwater Killed Iraqis," New York Times,
September 20, 2007
2. "U.S. rushes to smooth Iraq's anger over Blackwater," Los Angeles Times,
September 18, 2007
3. "Al-Maliki Says Blackwater Should Be Replaced for 'Criminal Act',"
Bloomberg.com, September 19, 2007
4. U.S. GAO report
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