MORE Blackwater Atrocity Revealed


	MORE Blackwater Atrocity Revealed

papananook

1-10-2008 11:31 AM

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papananook says:

With lobbyists in DC, no less...WTF? I wonder how many BW goons are IN DC and why, not to mention operating elsewhere in the States. Anybody know?

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1-11-2008 11:56 AM

Kauaiguy

You wonder what kind of vacuous mentality it takes to join buttwater.

1-11-2008 12:02 PM

papananook

You know the type--Steroid-wacked ex-jocks with teenie weenies, needing to over compensate...Acne backed goons with gun and knife fetishes and greedy little minds

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