Mark Small

Has the “American contractor killed” in Iraq whose death prompted current occupant of Oval Office - a/k/a dt - to stage attacks in Iraq been ID’d? If an incident predicates U.S. military action, we need as many details as possible. 1/12

I have yet to see that the person has been identified. 2/12

“Long before the [Vietnam] war was over, it was discovered that the Gulf of Tonkin incident as portrayed by the [Johnson] administration was a fraud.” Cawthorne, “Vietnam: A War Lost and Won,” 2017, p. 38. > 60K USA military & 100s of thousands of SE Asians died. 4/12

2003 invasion of Iraq was U.S. fraud-induced military action. We never found any “weapons of mass destruction.” > 4K U.S. military personnel & betw 151K and > 1 mil Iraqi civilians died as a result. 5/12

We have rt 2 know if an American contractor was killed. Lincoln said: “Let the people know the facts and the country will be safe.” dt lies many times during any given day. Did he lie about this death? 6/12

2nd:: if there was an “American contractor killed,” we need to know the nature of the “contract” This isnt macabre request. In contemporary parlance & context of military operations, many times “contractor” = mercenary 7/12

Blackwater - private firm run Erik Prince, Ed Secy Betsy DeVos’s bro - has contracts & ex-U.S. military employees on ground in Iraq. If a mercenary is killed, we have rt 2 know under what circumstances merc was there & merc’s work 8/12

Mercenary assumes risk in job. If this person’s work included enhanced interrogation techniques - i.e., torture; kind of Blackwater’s gig - many Americans would have problems w/risk of war 2 avenge death of such a contractor 9/12