This post by Nathan Hodge showed up on Wired.com - February 25, 2010
During yesterday’s Senate hearing on government oversight of security contractors, an interesting tidbit emerged. In his prepared testimony, Fred Roitz, executive vice president of contracts and chief sales officer for Xe (a.k.a. Blackwater), disclosed that his company, through its subsidiary Presidential Airways, evacuated a congressman from Niger during a recent military coup.
Turns out it was none other than Rep. Alan Grayson, the Florida Democrat who has made his reputation by going after military contractors. Irony alert! Grayson spokesman Todd Jurkowski confirmed that Grayson was spirited out of the country on a Xe helicopter, and offered this statement to Schulman: “The flight was arranged through the State Department … The congressman did not know, and frankly did not care, who owned the plane.”
How's that for gratitude? Isn't that the way it always is? You're a thug, a mercenary, a baby killer; to be spat on, hauled before Congress and grilled, then told to turn around and march to the sound of the guns all over again. But when they need you to save their sorry ass; you're the best thing they've seen since their wedding night - S.L.
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Considering what might marry Grayson, you're setting that bar pretty low...
ReplyDeleteYeah, that'd be assuming he married a GIRL!
ReplyDeleteOr even a human.
ReplyDelete"But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll'.
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Steve has to march in front for a while, just for saying that!
ReplyDeleteToo bad he did not miss his flight.....
ReplyDeleteThey could've got him up to ten thousand feet, then asked him to leave for his conscience sake!
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