If I was behind a gun in Iraq as a contractor, being crazy strong would have an appeal.

Also, the US military has been well documented using 'judgement altering substances' to hop up troops in the field and pilots in the cockpit.

(lol I said cock)

As long as America remains safe, I don't care about specifics.

Good thing America isn't safe... now you can worry about specifics. Awesome.

That's right, Rudy Giuliani lied to you.

Fuck you. America is a shining beacon of safety.

I'm alive. You're alive. Case closed you thankless twat.

Fuck safe.

The 'contractors' in question are mercenaries operating in a war zone. They are employed by big businesses that are enjoying insanely huge US government contracts.

Do I care if they're on steroids? No, I'm just pissed that my tax dollars are being wasted on them.

no fuck you tantrum i think your name tells all.
you have your tantrums and your nanny goverment is ready to give you your just deserts in the form of a fascist regime spanking so you will make you feel 'safe'.

these 'judgment-altering substances' sound just like what the nazi's did
~Armies Hopped Up on Drugs~
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9761

'Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.' ~ Benjamin Franklin

i just... i had something typed up and i can't even do it.

Listen here, lark, you fucking fruitcake. Go on reaping the benefits of a safe society while criticizing the means by which it's achieved.

In case you haven't noticed, it's survival of the fittest out there. Self-determination is a myth. The only choice we have is to continue floating down the torrential black river of reality or drown. So if you can't accept the omnipotent forces of destiny that shape your fate, I suggest you kill yourself.

LOLCOMMENTS?

Tantrum, you are not safe. Anyone could kill you at any moment. Survival of the fittest includes you and your safe feeling self.

It's fundamentally naive to assume you're above being disciplined. Whether you want to admit it or not, we've all been exposed to endless amounts of conditioning to become well-behaved citizens. You should not battle against the forces that have shaped the world around you, the battles lies within each one of us. Courageously accepting that the figment of personal control is a foundation for order and society. I PROPOSE YOU GROW UP. This infantile longing for pampered freedom and integrity embarrasses us all.

I, for one, understand that the world is unsafe, but I am honest enough to admit that the government understands how to care for my well-being better than I do. The ends justify the means and I'm thankful for whatever floats my way.

The steroids don't mean shit. Lots of guys in the military juice. But as a veteran and a patriot, Blackwater is deeply disturbing to me. We're supposed to take the high road. Americans, for the most part, have always volunteered for military service. Even if we are doing our imperialist crap in South America or somewheres, we send Marines or soldiers wearing the uniform of our country. We already have elite units such as the SEALS, Rangers, and such. We also have spooks like the CIA or the NSA. The fact that our government is funding a private military that attempts to operate outside the Laws of War and our government frightens me more than anything I have seen in recent years. Today Blackwater is patrolling Baghdad. But what happens if a terrorist attack occurs in America again? What if there's a riot in some major urban center? Tomorrow they'll be patrolling New York, Los Angeles, or your home town. Half our justification for this War on Terrorism is the fact that the people who are attacking us are nameless, faceless people who swear no allegiance to any country or any government. Isn't that what Blackwater is as well? They swear no oath, they wear no uniform, they answer to no chain of command and they have been accused of using tactics considered unlawful in war. Couldn't that be used to define a terrorist as well? I for one, would rather wipe my ass with the American Flag than have some Blackwater employee in a mask tell me where to go and what to do. There is a line in the sand and this man can only take so much.

Exactly.

'I am honest enough to admit that the government understands how to care for my well-being better than I do.'

Tantrum, you are a fool.

You ARE 'the government' and you're part of the reason it gets away with as much as it does. Your complacency and placid submission to the subjugation of otherwise free Americans by the cronies who have tricked you into trusting them to 'protect' you, is problem number one on the list of shit you aren't bothering to give a fuck about.

Pull your head out of the sand, nigga. The enemy is within.

I agree (with ^.)

Thanks for the lecture, but save it for your militia brothers.

Continue to demonstrate your outrage through anti-establishment internet rants from the 11th hole bunker. You live a life of specific luxury and fail to recognize that the system you abhor provides it.

I wish America hated people like you. I wish America was an actual living, breathing thing...like a sea serpent or something. And when it felt betrayed by traitorist like you, it would seek you out and gobble off your legs. You are an undeserving, paranoid child.

BTW. I'm awesome. ;)

Well just as long as they aren't breaking any baseball records.

Invading Iraq doesn't make us safer here in the states, if anything it's made us MUCH LESS safe. We dismantled pretty much the last secular regime in the region, and now we see fundamentalist islam really catching on in the middle east, iraq included. All we're really doing is just throwing fuel on the fire that will burn us in the end. Saddam might have been a prick, but while he was doing all that shit you hear on fox news(gassing of the kurds, etc...) he was actually an ally of the US. The funny thing is the people that were pretty much responsible for the iraq war, are the same people(cheney, rumsfeld) that were giving him weapons and looking the other way in the 80's.

Fundamentalist islam will really be a problem for america in the not so distant future. Too bad the war in iraq had nothing to do with that what so ever.

I don't buy your 'do what you gotta do to make me safe' argument, because it's not even close to valid.

War is the rich man's terrorism. Terrorism is the poor man's war

Take a dude, put him in front of people trying to kill him, copula pills make him more able to live? i say take the red ones

They should try some of Dr Kevorkians pills.....

YHBTLOLD

casmhar: Take a dude, put him in front of people trying to kill him, copula pills make him more able to live? i say take the red ones

Well, yeah, I agree with the word problem as offered. Thing is, the way it's framed neutralizes what I think may be the crux of the issue.

These guys do this voluntarily, not passively, and aren't just trying to cope -- they stand accused of aggravated abandonment of ethics. Finding out that many of them have chosen to self-medicate with performance-enhancing, judgment-degrading chemicals factors in, you bet.

vasudeva: These guys do this voluntarily, not passively, and aren't just trying to cope -- they stand accused of aggravated abandonment of ethics. Finding out that many of them have chosen to self-medicate with performance-enhancing, judgment-degrading chemicals factors in, you bet.

Agreed, but I also think their commanders are more likely responsible for the ethics violations and probably no where near harms way, just collecting cash. Shame on the US for not demanding more supervision of their contractors. In reality, we are are also paying for them. It's a mess

I also think their commanders are more likely responsible for the ethics violations

Maybe in that amorphous leadership kind of way. I guess they could probably do more to stop shitheels acting out their baser instincts.



Shame on the US for not demanding more supervision of their contractors.

Yes.

^ Casmhar: good point & eloquently stated....I concur