Alright, IB, Dozekar and Blackwater, knock it off

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Originally Posted by Rhalous [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not really sure where you're going with this, and it doesn't really matter to me, but seeing as I'm from New Orleans, I'll tell you that it was indeed a combat zone post-Katrina. Blackwater was there, too. Post-Katrina was a complete cluster fuck and there was most certainly rape, murder, drug wars, and all other types of criminal behavior going on.

Oh, I wasn't really going anywhere with it, just bringing it up to make my point. People were all up in arms about blackwater employees being there, but they have no problem with a ~250 man infantry unit of Marines.

Just to be clear, I'm friends with a number of guys who were sent down there and am sure they performed admirably and did their best to help alleviate the situation. I'm simply pointing out that if you really want to get angry about who the gov't sent in there to help out - a heavily armed combat unit of Marines being deployed within the boarders of the united states is in my opinion slightly more interesting than a private security firm.