Euphemism of the Day: “Morale Welfare Recreation”

This is the term Blackwater Worldwide, a private security company now called Xe, allegedly used to classify the salary of a Filipino prostitute who worked with the company’s male employees in Afghanistan. Her salary was allegedly billed to the U.S. Government, and is now the subject of a civil whistle blower lawsuit filed by two ex-Blackwater employees.

According to Carol Leonnig, who reported the story for the Washington Post, the company, Xe, could not be reached for comment. Read the story here.

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  • sacredh

    Have they found an invoice for large amounts of vinegar?

  • pafro

    I wonder if they learned that one from current Republican Senator and prostitute chaser David “Diapers” Vitter, or Republican presidential candidate, liar, “ideas guy”, and serial adulterer Newt Gingrich?

  • deconstructiva

    At least they didn’t list the working girl as “tower crane operator.” But just one? Meh. How many other companies used hired help? Back in ‘80’s Texas S+L mess, Vernon Savings hired a lot of help.

  • hotbbq

    It’s probably the only money the government paid to Blackwater that actually went towards helping someone.

  • afguy

    MWR is a military term but, for the life of me, I don’t remember hookers being one of the MWR benefits when I was on active duty.
    .
    About all we could count on was that beer free-for-all on Tuesday nghts called Bowling League Night.

  • FlownOver

    The senate will refrain from taking any action as a matter of professional courtesy.

  • afguy

    FlownOver – FTW!

  • afguy

    Just had a second thought, though – professional courtesy to whom?
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    The paid mercenaries or the hookers?

  • sacredh

    Hookers, senators…they’re both whores no matter how you slice it.

  • pintortwo

    Blackwater had its case dismissed alleging the assault and murder of 30 Iraqi civilians. Presiding Judge Urbina believes prosecuting attorney Kenneth Kohl purposely tanked it. He wrote:
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    These inconsistent, extraordinary explanations smack of post hoc rationalization and are simply implausible. The only conclusion the court can draw from this evidence is that Kohl and the rest of the trial team purposefully flouted the advice of the taint team when obtaining the substance of the defendants’ compelled statements, and in so doing, knowingly endangered the viability of the prosecution. (link)
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    No matter, Blackwater’s CEO is very well connected and they continue to operate in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan- despite strong resentment from locals.
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    As per contractors in general:
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    A House oversight subcommittee… has begun a wide-ranging investigation into allegations that private security companies hired to protect Defense Department convoys in Afghanistan are paying off warlords and the Taliban to ensure safe passage.
    (…)
    A preliminary inquiry… determined that the allegations warranted a full-scale inquiry, focused initially on eight trucking companies that share a $2.2 billion Defense Department contract to carry goods and material from main supply points inside Afghanistan — primarily Bagram air base — to more than 100 forward operating bases and other military facilities in the country.
    (link)
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    Again, no matter:
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    As many as 56,000 military contractors will join the additional 30,000 troops being deployed to Afghanistan, meaning that by next year there could be 130,000 to 160,000 contractors deployed alongside 100,000 US soldiers. (link)
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    That’s a lot of money, risk and unsavory-ness to tolerate in order to defeat an enemy with no ships, no jets, no ability to get here from there and no demonstrated desire to do so.

  • square1

    Yes, yes, but what about ACORN?

  • http://forgottenlord.livejournal.com forgottenlord

    Senators be courteous to a Filipino woman? She’s not an American!

  • stuartzechman

    They hate us for our freedoms.

  • kevin

    Gingrich was the one who had his mistresses only perform oral sex so he could claim that they’d “never slept together,” right?

  • kevin

    P.S. I know one of the conservatives will be by shortly to remind us all that “Clinton did it too!!!!” so let me add that Clinton didn’t make a career out of scolding other people for their sexual immorality like Vitter and Gingrich did. He cheated on his wife, yes, but he wasn’t a lying hypocrite like the Republicans.

  • spob

    yeah, you guys are just hypocrites on other things . . . .
    /
    by the way, ya had to love St. Barack’s “savvy” comment yesterday . . . . ha ha ha ha ha.

  • sacredh

    I think they really hate us because we’re snappy dressers.

  • stuartzechman

    OK, they hate us for successfully swinging in our slacks.

  • cfukara

    Sure!

    After all we hated the freedoms enjoyed by those in Saddam’s Iraq and Никита Сергеевич’s Хрущёв’s USSR .. And we hate the freedoms enjoyed by the Iranians, the Chinese, the North Koreans …

    [Whose freedoms are good freedoms?]

    –off topic
    Do those KKK and supremacist Aryans hate Iranians?

  • sacredh

    We are some wild and crazy guys.

  • cfukara

    We can stew over the taxpayer paying for prostitutes – but we are not that concerned about the taxpayer footing the bill to kill multitudes of innocent kids and their mothers in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, …

    Talk about a democracy’s founding fathers not trusting the judgement of the masses (and their MSM retards).

  • stuartzechman

    their MSM retards
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    You can’t say that!
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    That sounds like you’re being mean to people with disabilities!
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    Let’s talk about how mean you sound!

  • sacredh

    Medium mean. Not breaking puppies legs mean but maybe not giving them a treat mean.

  • cfukara

    If you are into emphathy then just imagine the life of that lady among crazed monsters who would, in a heartbeat, kill kids and women – and her – with nonchalant abandon….

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