From the report delivered to the House yesterday, about a drunk Blackwater employee who accidentally killed an Iraqi bodyguard:
The acting ambassador at the United States Embassy in Baghdad suggested that Blackwater apologize for the shooting and pay the dead Iraqi man’s family $250,000, lest the Iraqi government bar Blackwater from working there, the report said. Blackwater eventually paid the family $15,000, according to the report, after an embassy diplomatic security official complained that the “crazy sums” proposed by the ambassador could encourage Iraqis to try to “get killed by our guys to financially guarantee their family’s future.”
Ha! Right! They’re getting dying right now at a rate of about 50 per day, and that’s without any incentive at all. Don’t encourage them.
Seriously, tho: I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.