Add 800 to U.S. death toll in Iraq: Blackwater

I have a comment on DailyKos this morning urging people to read what you may have seen on the front page of your Miami Herald, the story from Baghdad about Blackwater's wild men and their Sept. 9 atrocity. This DailyKos diary, where my comment is posted, includes a link to a YouTube report backgrounding Blackwater. First I'd heard that almost 800 private contractors have died in Iraq, in addition to nearly 4,000 military deaths. Don't neglect to watch the video.

This sort of thing is only possible with the intense secrecy that follows the Bush-Cheney way of government. This must be reversed.

Here's the link to the Herald's story, with my kudos to McClatchy for a better story than what you'd read in the Friday NY Times or Washington Post on Blackwater.

UPDATE: Busy day. Getting to p. 3 of the Herald only at 1 p.m., and here's a related article from McClatchy's Washington bureau on how Blackwater screwed up and tried to cover up. A familiar tale of incompetence and secrecy.