200 Contractors Surrounded

[whell]

Originally Posted by MrPots

I wouldn't have to worry about that, my family are honest hardworking people, not greedy opportunists.

Frankly I thing those contractors have a lot of nerve expecting me to pay for their bail out.

Lord knows what the hell you're rambling about. If you have an issue with what the contractors are charging, take it up with Chucky Hagel at DOD.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by MrPots

Why? You think they have any sympathy for me as a taxpayer while they ream the government for their services?

I'm far less concerned with your tax burden than I am with the lives of 200 people.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by whell

Apparently evacuations have begun:

http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/200-u-s-c...dists-in-iraq/

Frank Biggs, a contractor with Sallyport Global, told WND through a Skype instant message that he was transported from Balad to Baghdad and was communicating from a C-130 preparing to take off to Dubai.

Biggs said 300 in total have been evacuated from Balad and another 100 are still awaiting airlift. He said the Iraqi Air Force is trying to evacuate everyone by midnight local time.

I hope they get the rest out of there in time.

Good news.

Dave

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

I did acknowledge in the post that some would object to the source. I would treat this as an unsubstantiated report at this point.

But IF it is true, it would be criminal IMHO to leave those US citizens stranded in increasingly hostile territory.

I did acknowledge that your were getting out in front of any criticism regarding your source, i.e. "sandbagging".

Mr. Pots expressed a valid point in the post above yours. WTF were these 'contractors' and their bosses thinking? If I were a 'whiffed up' reporter of the caliber of Corsi, I might think that the reason was to provoke a military response ala sending in the cavalry riding to rescue. That would get us right back into the middle of this thousand year feud between the Sunnis and the Shias. Personally, I think we ought to let them duke it out by themselves.

The neocons led us into this mess in the first place, let them send their kids in this time. Mebbe Bush can volunteer to be the mediator like Carter did with the Israelis and the Palestinians?

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

Lord knows what the hell you're rambling about. If you have an issue with what the contractors are charging, take it up with Chucky Hagel at DOD.

Did you have your memory wiped in '08 Mike?

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by JBS...

"The sources contend the U.S. military could provide the necessary air cover to protect C-130s or other air transport craft sufficient to make the evacuation, but so far officials have refused to get involved."

Sound familiar?

If these were stranded Climate Change Scientists I bet he would of already moved hell and high water to get them out...

BENGHAZI/SQUIRREL! Talk about one note songs. You're predictable if nothing else Jim.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by bobabode

You're shittin' us right Mike? Not a single source named and it all comes from Jerome 'Birther' Corsi at World Net Daily? That's a reputable source for you guys these days? Wow...

Jerome Corsi ??!
What? Because Josef Goebbles is dead? Are you shitting me indeed!
Corsi is known for an agenda that drives him to present his partisan fantasies as factual, my dogs poop has more credibility.

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[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by whell

I did acknowledge in the original post that some would object to the source. I would treat this as an unsubstantiated report at this point.

But IF it is true, it would be criminal IMHO to leave those US citizens stranded in increasingly hostile territory.

Then perhaps the thread title should have been- "Contractors Allegedly Surrounded."

Do your really read the stuff coming out of WND? I know that you are partisan to the core, but I thought you had more going for you than reliance on lunatics for your news.

[Tom Joad]

Civilian Contractors?!

Fuck em.

Overpaid underworked war profiteers is what they are.

Why should our underpaid, overworked military personnel have to put it on the line to save their sorry asses!?

Fuck em.

[whell]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Then perhaps the thread title should have been- "Contractors Allegedly Surrounded."

Do your really read the stuff coming out of WND? I know that you are partisan to the core, but I thought you had more going for you than reliance on lunatics for your news.

I don't recall you voicing similar objections when folks post links from Mother Jones.