Blackwater, Again

Blackwater, Again

Secretive shmeering…

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The Justice Department is investigating whether officials of Blackwater Worldwide tried to bribe Iraqi government officials in hopes of retaining the firm’s security work in Iraq after a deadly shooting episode in 2007.
   –The New York Times

So Blackwater bosses, from what we’ve been hearing,
When thinking the end of their contract was nearing
Because of some killings, began engineering
Illegal arrangements for secretive shmeering.
Surprise, surprise.

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