Op/Ed

Published: December 31, 2007

  

              It's  amazing how much time and money were spent on Whitewater during the Clinton Administration, which resulted in nothing, and how little is being spent  on Blackwater, a criminal enterprise run by The CIA CEO'S, of the O-I-L. The State Department has given them immunity from testifying about their unprovoked massacre. This is State sponsored Terrorism. I'm sure the presence of Blackwater has resulted in the fear and intimidation of our real American Soldiers. You know the soldiers whose benefits get cut to pay for the Phony Corporate soldiers. I'm sure that an Investigation of Blackwater would reveal a trail of phony intelligence, torture, kidnappings, as well as the mysterious things that happened to American G.I.'s opposed to the war. It would also be easier to get to the truth of financial irregularities by Haliburton and other Defense Contractors if witnesses knew that they were safe from Blackwater. This is why we shouldn't be outsourcing Intelligence gathering to these war profiteers of the Military Industrial Complex.

 

         This amazing conflict of interest where defense contractors are allowed to torture, kidnap, and function above the law is totally insane. This means that they can fabricate Intelligence, to suit their expansion of profit and power. We all ready know that the evidence obtained thru the water boarding method resulted in confessions to crimes that the person could not have committed. The purpose of water boarding for this administration is to get people to lie not to get them to tell the truth. I'm sure the tapes of water boarding were  destroyed  for two reasons. One is that they showed that brutality could get someone to confess to crimes they did not commit. The second reason is that they revealed the truth about others involved in terrorism that this administration is protecting. They did not destroy these tapes because they were trying protect Americans.

 

         If we put the time and effort into Blackwater as we did with Whitewater I'm sure we will find that it is not the surge that has things calm in Iraq but the fact that Blackwater is under suspicion. Unfortunately for America our global exploits have NOT    made other countries more like us/U.S.,    but has made us/U.S.    more like them. Our leaders are trying to become Czars, while turning the citizens into slaves and peasants. Just look at the woman gang raped in Saudi Arabia and the woman gang raped at Kellogg Brown and Root. Corporate dictatorship is no different than any other Dictatorship.

 

                                                   William J. Wahlsteen