Here’s the passage. It appears in a column entitled “Accept the Blackwater Mercenaries”

Here’s the passage. It appears in a column entitled “Accept the Blackwater Mercenaries” that both defended Blackwater and (entirely reasonably) called for greater oversight of security contractors operating in Iraq and elsewhere.

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