Report: Blackwater Executives OK'd Bribes After Iraqi Shootings

Predictably, after the Ft. Hood shooting some idiot conservatives are suggesting that we do some sort of loyalty exam for Muslim-Americans before allowing them into the US military. Who is "we"? Who gets to do this exam? What, presumably more American people like whites or Christians?

Why don't Muslim Americans decide which Christians get to enter the US military? Oh, does that sound offensive? Does it sound weird? Why should it sound any different than Christians getting to decide which other Americans they will allow into the US military?

A lot of people are rightfully making the point that you can not generalize about millions of Muslims in this country based on two guys. Just as you cannot generalize about all right-leaning white Christians (let alone all Christians in their entirety) based on what domestic terrorists like Tim McVeigh did, or Terry Nichols, or Eric Rudolph, or Scott Roeder or ...

But there is a more important point here. Muslims Americans don't have to prove a damn thing to you. They are Americans just like anyone else, whether right-wing clowns like it or not. They are not 80% American. They are not 90% as American as you are. You don't get to judge how American they are.

Here is the unalterable fact that the right-wing of this country has to get used to: Muslim-Americans are 100% American. There are no degrees of how American you are. They have the same exact rights, privileges and responsibilities as any other American does. They don't have to answer to you.

I'm agnostic now, but I was born Muslim. My whole family is Muslim. They're all Americans. Not one of them is one percent less of an American than any other race or religion in this country. My family became American by becoming naturalized. If anything, that shows that we are even more loyal to this country. Our citizenship is not an accident of birth, we chose America.

If someone challenges how American I am based on my race, ethnicity or religion (or lack thereof), them's fightin' words. These colors don't run. There is no one in the country more American than I am.

And at least I understand the whole point of the country. We are all created equal. We all have the same rights. We do not judge people based on their race or religion. That is part and parcel of what America is all about. And if you don't understand that, I question how American you are.

About the eternal polls on the AOL sites.
On World Net, Daily... these past weeks... directions to the Lunatic Fringe on how to access polls, and regardless of what the poll is about... vote NO to anything Democrat or Barack Obama.

So do not waste your time... just another farce!

Exactly. President Obama does not have time to worry about these stupid polls because of the two wars, the jobless rate and the economy that he inherited. It took years for these problems to develop and there isn't a person, dead or alive, who could turn them around in 10 months. And the deficit will begin to reduce itself in the next year as we pull out of Iraq and the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy expire.

Bribes and other thinly veiled campaign contributions works for US politicians every time, why wouldn't tjhey work in Iraq?

Here is something I just don't understand about all you so-called right wing all for America loyalist. When this ACORN story broke the Pied Piper of Fox misinterpret the news Czar Glenn Beck led the way in the all out assault on them until Federal funds were cut. Now we have Black Water and before that KBR/Haliburton both also funded by the Federal government. These two organization have done things that make what ACORN was accused of look like child's play. Where is Glen Beck on this? Where is Rush Limbaugh? where is Fox misinterpret the news? Where are all the conservative post that normally be in these comments outrage on this? Five post ahead of me and not one from a conservative that is outraged over this. What gives?

Whatever the name of the company they are still ten times worst than ACORN. And by the way isn't Dick Cheney some how connected to KBR/Haliburton? That's right. But remember you heard it hear first and not from Fox. Maybe I could ask my former president about what is a conflict of interest and does this apply to Cheney? Of course not he is above the law.

I agree

el burpo, daball et al
7:16PM Nov 11th 2009

How is John a hypocrite?
He merely asked a question as to why ACORN gets you all rowed up but Haliburton and Blackwater do not. Think again. Now who's the real hypocrite?

Who called names first?

Who changed the subject to the current president when the question was about firms that allegedly broke the law?

ACORN should be investigated, but Blackwater and Haliburton remain above the law.

Leave the presidents out.

Now who's the real hypocrite?