Life During Wartime

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Beau Phillips, a partner with the public relations firm Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter and Associates on Blackwater’s image issues:

“They need to help people understand that as you attack Blackwater, you’re really attacking soldiers in a sense,” Phillips said. “I think that’s a message that would be helpful.”

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Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, washed the t-shirt 23 times, threw the t-shirt in the ragbag, now I'm polishing furniture with it.

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  • bjacques

    October 9, 2007 at 7:50 pm

    Well, I’m against the war but for the troops but against the mercs. Or something like that. Shame Bush took the abovbe mesage to heart in Fallujah by avenging a quartet of hirelings.

  • Palau

    October 10, 2007 at 10:42 am

    I’m firmly of the opinion that the revenge for the Fallujah mercenary killings was what really started this war on its long slide to complete chaos. Before that there was at least a slim chance total civil war might, just might be forestalled: but once the US forces started in with the chemical weapons as clear vengeance for a bunch of trigger-happy guns for hire who got caught it could only get much, much worse.

    In a tribal society vengeance is a serious thing and begets more vengeance and more vengeance… I understand why the Fallujah residents did what they did to the merceneraries (not that I condone it or any violence). If unaccountable paid goons killed my family and no chance of justice I’d want their blood too.

    But those were just simple revenge murders (can’t believe I’m writing that, how funhouse-mirror is this getting?) and should have been treated as such, whereas the US’ revenge attack was clearly a war crime.