What a fucking weasel. "Our Jewish neighbors over there..." What, he doesn't want to call Israel his friend, so he'll settle for "neighbors," except there's an ocean & a continent between us & our "neighbors." How much you wanna bet he's got one of those Southern Republican "dry look" hair-dos?REP. JACK KINGSTON: Let me ask you now, being a conservative Christian, there’s a problem with that?
JEREMY SCAHILL: No. There's no problem with being a conservative Christian. The problem --
REP. JACK KINGSTON: Well, you said now -- you said -- I mean, you're saying he gives money to the Republican causes, and then you say to the religious right, and I’m having trouble
connecting that.
JEREMY SCAHILL: OK. Well, let's unpack that a little bit. I have an issue --
REP. JACK KINGSTON: I want to give you an opportunity to -- when you say a guy’s secretive, which is, you know, derogatory. “Multimillionaire who bankrolls the President” is derogatory. And then you put that he’s a conservative Christian. I want to just, you know, give you an opportunity to explain yourself.
JEREMY SCAHILL: I have a concern when someone is running a company that's being tasked with mission-critical activities in a Muslim country who’s a board member of an organization that believes that the Bible is the only infallible word of God. I have a problem with a company whose -- one of its senior executives is an open member of the Military Order of Malta, a Christian militia dating back to the first Crusades. Our president has used that term “crusade.” I think it's disturbing.
REP. JACK KINGSTON: Well, let me claim my time here now. So you wouldn't want a Christian running it. Would you want somebody who’s Jewish? Because, you know, as you know, probably if Iraq --
JEREMY SCAHILL: It's not about the individual religion, Mr. Kingston.
REP. JACK KINGSTON: Israel --
JEREMY SCAHILL: It's not about the religion. It’s about the politics --
REP. JACK KINGSTON: I didn’t bring religion --
JEREMY SCAHILL: It's about the politics of his --
REP. JACK KINGSTON: Reclaiming the time, I didn't bring religion up. You brought it up. You put here that he's a conservative Christian, and then you just stated the reason why you have concern about it. And I can understand what you're saying. But I would also say if Iraq falls, it's quite likely Israel would be next in line. And so, you know, there would be concern from, you know, our Jewish neighbors over there that -- so I just was a little perplexed here.
Well, he doesn't quite have the full "Trent Lott" going yet, but once he gets a little balder...Here's a bit from an interview w/ Scahill, from New American Media:
Has it been helpful to be given the name of contractor instead of mercenary?A tip of the Bouffant chapeau to Marisacat for both of these Q&A sessions.
It’s part of a sophisticated re-branding operation. The mercenary trade association has the very Orwellian name of International Peace Operations Association and its logo is a cartoon lion. When you are talking about Blackwater you are talking about mercenaries.
What does it mean that now they are regarded as part of the “U.S. total force”?
In February 2006 Donald Rumsfeld issued the Pentagon’s quadrennial review which lays out the Pentagon’s vision for years to come. There he classified Blackwater and other contractors as a legitimate part of the total force making up the U.S. war machine. This was legitimacy that they could not have dreamed of. Now Blackwater has taken that designation and used it in two wrongful death suits filed against it – one for the incident in Fallujah and one for a plane crash in Afghanistan. They have said they should be immune from civilian legislation inside the United States because they are essentially part of the U.S. national security apparatus. At the same time it lobbies against placing its men under the US court-martial system.
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