boob, you make yourself look the ass so well. No wonder you are a Democrat.

More lying, distorting and creation of a false impression from little parrot.

From November's Vanity Fair:

It is not unheard of for trucks in a war zone to perform hearse duty. But both civilian and U.S.-military regulations state that once a trailer has been used to store corpses it can never again be loaded with food or drink intended for human consumption. According to the U.S. Army's Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, "Contact with whole or part human remains carries potential risks associated with pathogenic microbiological organisms that may be present in human blood and tissue." The diseases that may be communicated include aids, hepatitis, tuberculosis, septicemia, meningitis, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human variant of mad cow.

But when Bud Conyers next caught sight of trailer R-89, about a month later, it was packed not with human casualties but with bags of ice-ice that was going into drinks served to American troops. He took photographs, showing the ice bags, the trailer number, and the wooden decking, which appeared to be stained red. Another former KBR employee, James Logsdon, who now works as a police officer near Enid, says he first saw R-89 about a week after Conyers's grisly discovery. "You could still see a little bit of matter from the bodies, stuff that looked kind of pearly, and blood from the stomachs. It hadn't even been hosed down. Afterwards, I saw that truck in the P.W.C.-the public warehouse center-several times. There's nothing there except food and ice. It was backed up to a dock, being loaded."

As late as August 31, 11 weeks after trailer R-89 was emptied of the putrefying bodies, a KBR convoy commander named Jeff Allen filed a mission log stating that it had carried 5,000 pounds of ice that day. This ice, Allen wrote, was "bio-contaminated." But to his horror, on that day alone, "approx 1,800 pounds [were] used."

2H9

No – blackwater fever has been around forever where there is endemic Plasmodium falciparium malaria. It is a usually rare complication so named because hemoglobin from destroyed red blood cells turns urine dark. The same thing can happen when people with G6PD deficiency are given primaquine to treat malaria. Contrary to the "UN Briefing" mentioned in the Readers Entries, it has nothing to do with leishmaniasis, which is transmitted by sand flies, not water.

The issue is the media, as usual, getting it all wrong and conflating a known condition, with the contractor.

Indeed.

The Google Fu of the usual suspects [MSM, rbb, etc.] remains weak…

For those coming here via blackwaterboob link:

The "what some are reporting" link at the top of Rob's article was a particularly stupid post by "<acronym title="a self contradiction if ever there was one">realitybasedbob</acronym>" alleging that "blackwater fever" was a new name being applied to falciparum malaria in Iraq as a slap at the mercenary firm then known as Blackwater Services. Some eleven months after posting his article and after being nicknamed for the stupidity demonstrated in it, he went back and edited his article to obscure his stupidity and dishonesty.

This is but one reason blackwaterboob is held in complete and utter contempt hereabouts.

Our host, Rob Port, has since enabled the feature which allows him to roll back to earlier versions of articles specifically because of this incident.

In addition, blackwaterboob later revealed himself to be a racist.

Meanwhile, back here on planet earth (where reality is still paid at least lip service), blackwaterboob remains wet to the knees whilst staring at the Pyramids!

He remains knee deep (if not even deeper) in denial of his well earned SAB reputation as a self convicted and unrepentant racist and serial fabulist.

r180 McCain voter, when did you sign up to be da wiz's sock puppet.

It suits you.

Congrats!

Oh, I'm sorry.

Was that ad hominahominahomina?