Times are tough all over. It seems that Blackwater, the mercenaries-'r'-us company that sends mad-dog killers all over the world "to protect" clients, has had to change its name because of all the bad press. Henceforth it will be called "Xe" (pronounced "zee"). Killing unarmed Iraqi civilians--men, women, and children--will indeed earn you a bad notice or two on Page A27 of your local paper, assuming that it's a slow news day and that the editors don't need the space for stories on local dog shows or out-breaks of termites or a heart-warming tale about a three-legged alley cat being adopted by children. This private army of thugs for hire has been bleeding hundreds of millions from the US government because George Bush thought it a grand idea to outsource the slaughter of helpless people to psychotics. Killing for profit was something the Mafia used to do; now it's big, profitable business with fat government contracts. These are the times we live in.
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