Fun with Blackwater

Standing down so they can stand up:

Iraqi politicians are moving quickly to rescind a three-year-old decree that gives foreign security companies immunity from local law. The push comes less than two months after Blackwater USA employees killed 17 Iraqis in Baghdad, igniting a diplomatic firestorm.

While the Iraqi cabinet approved a draft law yesterday that would make contractors subject to Iraqi law, politicians in the U.S. questioned why the State Department may have granted limited immunity to several Blackwater guards involved in the Sept. 16 shooting. The Iraqi government has called the shooting unprovoked.

I wonder what Boy Bush will have to say about this. But about that immunity,

So I just learned on CNN that the State Department offered immunity to the Blackwater guards. That they don't have the power to do it. That they did it anyway. That senior State people didn't sign off on this thing they didn't have the power to do. This thing they didn't have the power to do will inhibit any efforts to prosecute them.

Is every part of this administration FUBAR?

Yes, I already know the answer to that question.