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We're not good at embedding video.
So you'll have to go here to get the short clip from Tucker featuring Erik Prince un-plugged, discussing the striped-pants idiots and warmongers who screwed up Afghanistan.
You will not regret seeing this.
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Prince is a scum bag.
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-accused-in-us-district-court-of-intent-to-kill/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/blackwater-founder-implicated-murder/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/world/middleeast/erik-prince-libya-embargo.html
https://www.forbes.com/return-of-erik-prince/#6e75bf7750aa
When Prince pitched a plan to privatize the war in Afghanistan in 2017, the White House took him seriously. "He actually had the most cogent argument, much more than the guys who were 'stay the course,' " Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon tells Forbes.
So give him the money and he and his murderous cabal will fight in Afghanistan for America. So his plan would once and for all remove the Taliban? The arrogance is wretched considering...
In 2004 the State Department found itself ill-prepared to provide full security for the rapidly growing population of diplomats in Baghdad operating under the Coalition Provisional Authority. The State Department selected Blackwater that year to fill gaps in its Worldwide Protective Services Contract, with an initial award of $106 million, according to a State Department inspector general’s audit. By 2009, Blackwater had been paid more than $1.35 billion for security services in Iraq.
Blackwater quickly became a symbol of what government watchdogs said was out-of-control war spending. Contractors were criticized for acting as if they were above Iraqi law. Blackwater convoys ran Iraqi civilian drivers off the roads and frequently used machine gun fire as a default warning when locals got too close. Their behavior angered and alienated the local population, even as some of the U.S. ground forces came to rely on Blackwater in gun battles where additional military assets could not respond.
Then came Nisoor Square. On Sept. 16, 2007, after several previous hostile engagements that day, Blackwater contractors fired on a crowd of Iraqi civilians, killing 17. The Iraqi government ordered the security firm out of the country. The State Department ended Blackwater’s contract the next year. Some former employees involved in that shooting incident remain in jail, awaiting sentencing in the U.S courts.
*Yawn*
One fights a war to WIN, not to take orders from REMF lawyers.
Don't like "winning"? Go to Canada.
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