Comments on: Contractors Gone Wild http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: adidas online http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-159078 adidas online Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:59:54 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-159078 Thanks for this interesting post,i like it. Thanks for this interesting post,i like it.

]]> By: strangely_enough http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-81179 strangely_enough Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:54:00 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-81179 Amazing, ain't it? Triple Canopy, Dyncorp, pretty much the whole lot of them seem like criminal organizations. This is what our tax dollars pay for.<br>And they bitch about ACORN... Amazing, ain't it? Triple Canopy, Dyncorp, pretty much the whole lot of them seem like criminal organizations. This is what our tax dollars pay for.
And they bitch about ACORN…

]]> By: chrisjay http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-81015 chrisjay Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:17:39 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-81015 Draw a straight (no pun intended) line from these photos to those other famous homoerotic photos from Abu Ghraib. Contractors were involved there as well, but the media dropped the ball on that story (that was before the unbelievable corruption and savagery of Blackwater was common knowledge) Draw a straight (no pun intended) line from these photos to those other famous homoerotic photos from Abu Ghraib. Contractors were involved there as well, but the media dropped the ball on that story (that was before the unbelievable corruption and savagery of Blackwater was common knowledge)

]]> By: Butrfly1176 http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-71645 Butrfly1176 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:52:37 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-71645 It's really sad that the few that act like thus give everine in a whole a bad name. I know the qualifications you have to have to be where these guys ara at. Doing the things they are doing. Not everyone can do it. There are good people there as well, working hard to protect our country and to support their families. My husband is there and he has told me some of the things that he has seen and he can't stand working with those idiots. It's not everyone! I It's really sad that the few that act like thus give everine in a whole a bad name. I know the qualifications you have to have to be where these guys ara at. Doing the things they are doing. Not everyone can do it. There are good people there as well, working hard to protect our country and to support their families. My husband is there and he has told me some of the things that he has seen and he can't stand working with those idiots. It's not everyone! I

]]> By: voxmagi http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-71103 voxmagi Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:28:17 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-71103 You're forgetting about the female Ameican soldier who was raped, killed and mutilated with caustic chemicals (to burn off evidence/DNA) and dumped in tent...with the primary suspicion falling upon the contractors she worked with daily.<br><br>It was judged to be a suicide. Although how she managed to burn her guts out with acid before killing herself I would just love to know. <br><br>I live in a rowdy world...but there are limits decent people observe even while trashed (and I have been trashed on occasion.) Some things show a deficit of character so great that the people who commit them shouldn't be trusted with certain tasks...like testing pilots for booze or drugs, or doing background checks on people working for the State Dept. A certain standard of conduct is expected.<br><br>If it's, as you say, 'going to get worse', it will because there are no consequences for their actions. No investigations, deaths become accidents and suicides, newspapers stay silent and outrage is transformed into acceptance. We don't like their behavior...noted. So we look to build consensus that the rules they operate under be tightened, that the worst offenders be fired and/or jailed (for the ones who commit real crimes...not just the pathetic drunks). Because why should we live in a world of laws and rules and expectations...and then tolerate a pack of lushes being given a free ride on uncle Sams back? And no waste? Would you feel safe knowing the guy guarding you in a hostile country was doing shots out of his buddys ass crack last night? I can shoot with the best of them, but hangovers and reflexes don't mix. Our money has been wasted on guards who aren't fit to guard a shithouse against flies. You're forgetting about the female Ameican soldier who was raped, killed and mutilated with caustic chemicals (to burn off evidence/DNA) and dumped in tent…with the primary suspicion falling upon the contractors she worked with daily.

It was judged to be a suicide. Although how she managed to burn her guts out with acid before killing herself I would just love to know.

I live in a rowdy world…but there are limits decent people observe even while trashed (and I have been trashed on occasion.) Some things show a deficit of character so great that the people who commit them shouldn't be trusted with certain tasks…like testing pilots for booze or drugs, or doing background checks on people working for the State Dept. A certain standard of conduct is expected.

If it's, as you say, 'going to get worse', it will because there are no consequences for their actions. No investigations, deaths become accidents and suicides, newspapers stay silent and outrage is transformed into acceptance. We don't like their behavior…noted. So we look to build consensus that the rules they operate under be tightened, that the worst offenders be fired and/or jailed (for the ones who commit real crimes…not just the pathetic drunks). Because why should we live in a world of laws and rules and expectations…and then tolerate a pack of lushes being given a free ride on uncle Sams back? And no waste? Would you feel safe knowing the guy guarding you in a hostile country was doing shots out of his buddys ass crack last night? I can shoot with the best of them, but hangovers and reflexes don't mix. Our money has been wasted on guards who aren't fit to guard a shithouse against flies.

]]> By: marc http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-71012 marc Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:25:33 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-71012 It might behoove us tea cup holders to consider that this "camp", no pun intended is serviced by a small army of Afghan nationals. They cook and serve the food, clean the rooms and latrines, wash the clothes and the vehicles. In other words they do all the shit work that needs to be done while the "Big Boys" blow off steam by drinking vodka out of each others butt cracks. Like all servents the Afghans are mostly ignored by the hard partying security contractors but they have eyes and ears and believe me everything that happens in that camp is know all over Kabul and probable Afghanistan. It hardly is a good representation of our superior western ways. The wstern ways that Gen McChrystal is willing to exchange a large number of American troops lives to sell to the Afghan people.. It might behoove us tea cup holders to consider that this “camp”, no pun intended is serviced by a small army of Afghan nationals. They cook and serve the food, clean the rooms and latrines, wash the clothes and the vehicles. In other words they do all the shit work that needs to be done while the “Big Boys” blow off steam by drinking vodka out of each others butt cracks. Like all servents the Afghans are mostly ignored by the hard partying security contractors but they have eyes and ears and believe me everything that happens in that camp is know all over Kabul and probable Afghanistan. It hardly is a good representation of our superior western ways. The wstern ways that Gen McChrystal is willing to exchange a large number of American troops lives to sell to the Afghan people..

]]> By: ER http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-70959 ER Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:56:42 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-70959 Get a grip people! You must all live in a sheltered little world with teacups and fairies all around you! Do you really think things like this don't occur often, in every part of the world, by, not only civilians, but by military personnel as well. OUR US personnel! Please, this DOES happen! I'm not condoning it, but no one was hurt, no one was sexually molested and these guys were off duty. Yeah, shots are being heard outside there site...It's the freakin middle east for God's sake! I don't beleive they work in that type of environment to be "civilized." That type of talk, language, demeanor is typical "type A" personnalities. But, you folks making the "OMG, I'm so appaulled comments" don't have a clue. Wake up America, the SH#$ is only going to get worse and we will have to deal with it anyway we can! It's just R&R for those guys. They aren't waisting anyones money with their behavoir. You just don't like their behavoir, noted! Get a grip people! You must all live in a sheltered little world with teacups and fairies all around you! Do you really think things like this don't occur often, in every part of the world, by, not only civilians, but by military personnel as well. OUR US personnel! Please, this DOES happen! I'm not condoning it, but no one was hurt, no one was sexually molested and these guys were off duty. Yeah, shots are being heard outside there site…It's the freakin middle east for God's sake! I don't beleive they work in that type of environment to be “civilized.” That type of talk, language, demeanor is typical “type A” personnalities. But, you folks making the “OMG, I'm so appaulled comments” don't have a clue. Wake up America, the SH#$ is only going to get worse and we will have to deal with it anyway we can! It's just R&R for those guys. They aren't waisting anyones money with their behavoir. You just don't like their behavoir, noted!

]]> By: At The End Of The Day, Gawker Holds The Conch Shell « Around The Sphere http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-70980 At The End Of The Day, Gawker Holds The Conch Shell « Around The Sphere Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:24:10 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-70980 [...] Spencer Ackerman: Asked about ArmorGroup at a press briefing today, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said that Clinton would have “zero tolerance for the type of conduct that is alleged.” But when a reporter challenged Kelly over the fact that State has put ArmorGroup on notice about inappropriate behavior in Kabul since June 2007, this was his response: [...] [...] Spencer Ackerman: Asked about ArmorGroup at a press briefing today, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said that Clinton would have “zero tolerance for the type of conduct that is alleged.” But when a reporter challenged Kelly over the fact that State has put ArmorGroup on notice about inappropriate behavior in Kabul since June 2007, this was his response: [...]

]]> By: marc http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-70780 marc Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:05:07 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-70780 I think it was in Steve Fainaru's book "Big Boy Rules" that a female State Department employee clained to have been approached by 2 Blackwater guards at a Green Zone bar run by and patronised by private security contractors. One of the Blackwater guards suggested that they all go back to his quarters where he could have sex with her while at the same time his buddy would masturbated against his back. I think she thought they were crude assholes making a sick joke so she left and never went back. After reading this article I have to think they were crude sickos making a serious proposition. I think it was in Steve Fainaru's book “Big Boy Rules” that a female State Department employee clained to have been approached by 2 Blackwater guards at a Green Zone bar run by and patronised by private security contractors. One of the Blackwater guards suggested that they all go back to his quarters where he could have sex with her while at the same time his buddy would masturbated against his back. I think she thought they were crude assholes making a sick joke so she left and never went back. After reading this article I have to think they were crude sickos making a serious proposition.

]]> By: Kabul Contractor Outrage Will Bring No Change [Freelancers] | Newstion.com http://washingtonindependent.com/57425/contractors-gone-wild/comment-page-1#comment-70832 Kabul Contractor Outrage Will Bring No Change [Freelancers] | Newstion.com Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:00:44 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=57425#comment-70832 [...] and lack of oversight can result in poor performance.” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly confirmed that yesterday at a press conference: We’ve been investigating this organization for some [...] [...] and lack of oversight can result in poor performance.” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly confirmed that yesterday at a press conference: We’ve been investigating this organization for some [...]

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