Hessians Redux: Blackwater, U.S. and England
By Dr. Sam Hamod 09/20/07 "ICH" --- -
It's strange that most of our American brethren have forgotten the Hessians, the mercenaries the British hired to fight against us in the Revolutionary War. You may recall that George Washington and his small band of patriots, men who were fighting for their country, crossed the Delaware River during the icy winter season in small boats and caught the Hessians unaware in Trenton and defeated them and broke the spirit of the British regulars who had depended on the famed Hessian mercenaries to finish off General Washington and his troops.
These Hessians were mercenaries, fighting for money, not for any moral cause; the Blackwater "security" people are mercenaries and who come from all over the world, South Africa, the Congo, Chile, Nicaragua and other places. Though Blackwater is an "American firm," its mercenaries are not all Americans, though some are. But, they, like the Hessians, are there for money, to do the bidding of those who wish to occupy a land against the will of the natives of that land—in our case, we were fighting for our independence, in the case of the Iraqis they are fighting for their country. We label them "terrorists" for fighting for their families, their homes and their religion—but we label Blackwater, "security forces"! Ah, what euphemisms, wrongful labeling and upside down semantics can do for you. LINK