Once upon a time, Joe Lieberman nearly ruined Barack Obama’s career forever by going to the Republican National Convention and calling him a “young man” repeatedly while Obama was busy trying to win a campaign against an ancient War God and his evil, fecund snow mistress. Obama prevailed, of course, but since then everybody has hated Joe Lieberman’s guts even more than they used to. MORE »

Erik Prince, Blackwater’s founder and owner, is testifying before Congress about how his mercenary army keeps shooting civilians in Iraq. Henry Waxman opened the hearing by applauding Prince for serving in the military even though he’s rich and politically-connected. And we applaud Prince for then quitting the military to go into the private sector, using all that taxpayer-funded know-how to make himself millions of dollars. Of course, every now and then, one has to give back a couple of those dollars. Like when one of your employees drunkenly kills a civilian and you need to shut up his whiny family. And just how much is that life worth? MORE »

Congratulations to Blackwater, who, despite being just one of the many private armies currently employed by the Pentagon and State Department to “provide security” in Iraq, is handily beating all their competitors when it comes to shooting Iraqis. Blackwater has officially fired weapons “at least twice as often per convoy mission as security guards working for other American security firms.” Someone’s getting a hefty bump come the holiday appropriations season! MORE »

The Iraqi Government is kicking private security firm/mercenary army Blackwater out of their country — wait, what? They can do that? Blackwater runs their fucking country! Apparently the Iraqis are all upstet that our soldiers-for-hire keep opening fire on civilians because they answer to no one but the dollar. Of course there are something like 100,000 mercenaries in Iraq shoring up our military with half the professionalism at twice the cost, and we kinda need them to secure that one block-long Potemkin “open air market” that all our congresspeople keep visiting. MORE »