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2006-01-25 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by Steve 2006-01-25 09:44|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gosh, you mean you can't just give them food and money and stuff and get them to do what you want out of pure gratitude? I... I don't know what to say, this rocks my whole worldview.

Posted by BH 2006-01-25 10:00|| 2006-01-25 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Dear Mr. Secretary-General:

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-25 10:00|| 2006-01-25 10:00|| Front Page Top

#3 What Blackwater sez, only more so:

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Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-01-25 10:04|| 2006-01-25 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 There was a commercial outfit, Executive Action, if I recall correctly, which was doing this in an African country. Big howls of mercenaries and bad-bad from the UN. Maybe now they'll grasp the value of a commercial model with a definitive contract as having practical value. Instead of using national 'merc' who are used to generate income for some local dictator or authoritarian or cash strapped civil government providing less than quality troops now. But then again, it means you have to give up buggering little children too. That may quickly end the UN's interest in contracting out.

Posted by Angineng Whomonter7804 2006-01-25 10:30|| 2006-01-25 10:30|| Front Page Top

#5 But then again, it means you have to give up buggering little children too. That may quickly end the UN's interest in contracting out.

Ditto Whomonter! Excellent comment.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-25 10:53|| 2006-01-25 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I certainly would be leary of taking any contract with the UN that didn't specify payment upfront.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-25 11:35|| 2006-01-25 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 TW: Please see Kojo for payment scheme details.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-25 11:41|| 2006-01-25 11:41|| Front Page Top

#8 It's just the UN taking the credit for the British forces work.

The only thing they did was hand over the headed notepaper.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-01-25 12:20|| 2006-01-25 12:20|| Front Page Top

#9 I thought the firm was "Executive Outcomes," not "Executive Action," but I don't remember for sure.

Posted by WhitecollarRedneck 2006-01-25 12:22|| 2006-01-25 12:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Yes Redneck it was Executive Outcomes and they are a great story gotta check out the Web site.

Posted by Rightwing 2006-01-25 12:37|| 2006-01-25 12:37|| Front Page Top

#11 There was a commercial outfit, Executive Action, if I recall correctly, which was doing this in an African country. Big howls of mercenaries and bad-bad from the UN.

Sierra Leone

Posted by James">James 2006-01-25 12:50|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-01-25 12:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Dubya's critics are still doing their all to maintain the OWG cannon barrage ags poor little Fort Sumter - in 1861 the then Union Commander did his best not to antagonize North-South relations by NOT firing back; ditto for Clintonian Fascist = Communist Amerika for anything and ags anyone vv the WOT. When it comes to 2008 DUbya and the GOP are hated Hitlerists and Nazis; when it comes to Dubya and USA spreading alleged Global/Universal Socialism-Governmetism, Amerikan and Bushite Fascists = mere De-Regulated/Limited Communists, Limited Totalitarianists, Lim Regulators, Empirists, etal. pro-Left "silent/shadow" labels. IMPERFECT ERROR-PRONE DISHONORABLE UNRELIABLE, ETC. ANTi-SALAD MALE BRUTE AMERIKA WINS THE WAR(S) OVERSEAS BUT LOSES IT AT HOME ERGO WILL STILL LOSE IT BOTH OVERSEAS + LOSE AT HOME. I.E STILL LOST ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO OWG AND COMMIE ASIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-01-25 20:42|| 2006-01-25 20:42|| Front Page Top

#13 ANTi-SALAD MALE BRUTE...

LMAO!!! Way to go, Joe!!!! That's right up there with BettyCrockerCrats. Made my day.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-01-25 23:33|| 2006-01-25 23:33|| Front Page Top

#14
JOE SUPERSTRINGS 2008 ;-)

Posted by Max Planck 2006-01-25 23:53|| 2006-01-25 23:53|| Front Page Top

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