Mar 03 2008
State Democrats Target Blackwater
Several Democratic candidates are targeting Blackwater.
Congressional candidate Marshall Adame, U.S. Senate candidate Jim Neal and U.S. Rep. David Price have attacked the Moyock-based security contractor, the Virginian-Pilot reports.
Adame, a diplomat who spent in Iraq, called them “guns for hire.”
Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat, introduced legislation requiring more oversight of contractors after Blackwater guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians in September.
And Neal, who is running against state Sen. Kay Hagan for the Democratic nomination, responded “Hell, no,” when asked whether the U.S. military should “outsource warfare.”
