Blackwater Buys Bombers

Here’s something disturbing: Blackwater USA, the right-wing Christian mercenary company that Bush-Cheney have employed in Iraq has taken to buying bombers from Brazil. This showed up in my morning paper today, but actually, it’s not news at all. Military related blogs were reporting on this last summer.



The planes they are buying are no great shakes. They look like P-51s, like the old Flying Tigers. In fact, these Super Tucanos are propeller craft. But they are bombers, and even though Blackwater has already been using armed helicopters in Iraq, somehow this strikes me as carrying the right to bear arms a bit too far.

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