Monday, September 24, 2007

Big-Time Politics

Talk about pulling the political strings....


Iraq Relents on Blackwater Bush to ask for Nearly $200 bn.



The Iraqi government is backing off its demand that the Blackwater security firm be expelled from Iraq in the wake of apparently unprovoked shootings that left 11 Iraqis dead, according to the LAT. Apparently the argument has been made to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that the 1,000 Blackwater guards who escort US embassy personnel would have to be replaced by troops, who would have to be pulled out of their current attempt to drive Sunni Arab militants out of [...]



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