More proof "the surge is working"...CIA is afraid to go outside without trigger-happy Blackwater

[ProSense]

More proof "the surge is working": Right-wingers claim even the CIA is afraid to go outside without trigger-happy Blackwater

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The bizarre logic here escapes me. The surge is working so well that our own CIA agents -- trained for months at "The Farm" in Virginia to learn how to kill a man with a ballpoint pen, and that sort of thing -- are now afraid to walk out the front door without a bevy of allegedly trigger-happy men toting machine guns and firing indiscriminantly?

My God, what was it like in Baghdad before the awesome power of the surge?

Footnote: There's also this bizarre passage, suggesting that Baghdad is so safe that the only people we can find to man its high-risk checkpoints are Peruvians:

There are now more private contractors working in Iraq than U.S. soldiers serving there. Many are not U.S. citizens. Triple Canopy, another private firm, usually hires Peruvians to man the checkpoints inside the International Zone and Ugandans to guard distant airbases. The Peruvians, known as “incas” among Americans there, usually do not speak English or Arabic—a persistent source of complaint by Iraqi politicians who speak one or both languages.

"Incas"?

It's one thing to hire foreigners at low wages to serve as car-bomb fodder, but do we have to insult them, too?

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[lyonn]

1. How telling is that? C-span was discussing this today

Describing how the govt. officials can't leave the Green Zone now that Blackwater has been shut down. Mind boggling. Does this get much air time? Of course not.

Then bush's "Press Conference" (joke) where I was sure there was going to be the "bush melt down" as he was ranting about everything. Especially when he tried to link the "Betrayus" comment to include the troops. We have been betrayed by this jerk since he starting running for office. Anyone associated with him is a yes man, why would Petraeus be any different. All along it was joked about how Petraeus would be the fall guy for keeping troop levels high. George just loves His war. Guess the repub's in Congress don't really want their jobs. There will be a landslide for Dems in Nov. 08. Course they can't deal with this mess george has created, they are incapable.