This goes in the fingernails-on-the-chalkboard category, or maybe the you’ve got to be SH#$%@NG me category.
Today’s news on Blackwater is that they failed to prepare four of their militants before sending them into hostile territory. Preparation is hard, prediction even harder, and so you might think they would say something of that sort about how they did their best but they made a mistake and have regrets, right?
In a statement, Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell called the report a “one-sided version” of a tragic incident. She said the committee has documents that show the Blackwater team was “betrayed” and steered into “a well-planned ambush.”
The report does not acknowledge “that the terrorists determined what happened that fateful day in 2004,” Tyrrell said. “The terrorists were intent on killing Americans and desecrating their bodies.”
Oh, really? Blackwater thought terrorists were not intent on killing Americans and that was the reason their trained anti-terrorist troops were caught off-guard? Did I read that right? Who are they kidding? It was the terrorists fault for Blackwater botching a mission? Wow.