Erik Prince Quitting Blackwater

Sorry I mean Xe – Murdering 17 civilians in a market square requires a rebranding

I’m surprised that this story hasn’t got more play. The Right Wing Christian Fundamentalist is resigning his post as Crusader-in-chief of possibly the most unethical company to ever exist in the history of the universe.

Prince possesses the standard issue right wing sense of victimhood that seems to be a genetic requirement of extreme wingers everywhere:

I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions. … But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus. … I’m an easy target.

Absolutely incredible and a worthy rival to the currently ongoing Palin Pity Tour.

I really hope that this signifies the beginning of the end for contracting out government thuggery, farming out the catering is one thing but the shooting people and blowing things up thing? -Not so much.

Time for the Cheney Rumsfeld version of the industrial military complex to be disbanded completely and without exception.