NYT: Mercenary overlords at Blackwater made secret payoffs of about $1 million to Iraqi officials to silence criticism and buy support after Blackwater security guards shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.
Blackwater accused of $1 Million in secret payoffs to silence Iraqi officials
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If you're going to pay a weregild, it should at least go to the families.
What would Jesus do?
Absolutely, Antinous.
Frankly, I wish our government was more willing to use that form of practical/tangible apology. I suspect that if we sent each of the Guantanamo detainees home with a megabuck, it would be (a) cheap as such things go and (b) accepted by most of them as a sincere attempt to apologize for the erroneous detainment.
That's under $60,000 per head. Life is cheap over there.