So the founder of Blackwater, the non-state military company most associated with the Iraq war, is publishing a memoir this October. Apparently the dear Erik Prince will name names of those in the Clinton and Obama administrations who backstabbed him. All this with the explicit intent of affecting the up-coming elections. Oh, and he's written a screenplay of said memoirs already.
Contrawise, WikiLeaks has announced the coming of the largest release of military documents, believed to focus on the Iraq war, and is working with various news agencies in the Western world to take the documents public.
Why is it I have the feeling whatever Prince says in his memoirs will get torn to shreds by the new WikiLeaks info dump? Perhaps because Mr. Prince is a preening, biased ass and military documents are military documents? Nah, couldn't be that.
Contrawise, WikiLeaks has announced the coming of the largest release of military documents, believed to focus on the Iraq war, and is working with various news agencies in the Western world to take the documents public.
Why is it I have the feeling whatever Prince says in his memoirs will get torn to shreds by the new WikiLeaks info dump? Perhaps because Mr. Prince is a preening, biased ass and military documents are military documents? Nah, couldn't be that.
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kitsea:
no reason for that feeling at all 
oddityodyssey:
Oh, I'm sure Prince has something worthwhile to say. He can make a case how his company was fucked over contractually. That's the problem though; his defense will rest almost entirely on technicalities and contract law. Where the book will go off the rails is with the issue of morality and use of force. Prince will make a standard neo-conservative argument, a thoroughly debunked one at that, and claim his employees were placed under far too constrictive rules on engagement and use of force. The technicalities and contract law will establish that, yes, legally his company was made scape-goat for all mercenary work in Iraq. The morality of those actions will get slathered with a heavy layer of neo-con talking points. The book, however, is not a court of law so establishing a legal defense does nothing to actually defend his company.