The Blackwater Lawsuit: Politically Motivated or Widow Motivated?

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater security company, was recently quoted by Reuters as having called the lawsuits filed against his company for the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians "politically motivated." The petitioners of the law suit are a wounded victim and relatives of 3 deceased victims. Those don’t sound like the kinds of people who care whether the Republicans maintain control of the White House, they sound like the type of people who have sustained injury or lost loved ones at the hands of mercenaries and are unable to seek restitution in their homeland because the White House has secured Blackwater immunity from Iraqi prosecution. Erik points to the filers of the lawsuit, the Center for Constitutional Rights, as evidence of the political motives behind the charges. I’m will to grant that the motives behind the Center for Constitutional Rights decision to take up the case may be political, just as the Christian Coalitions decision (although decision implies an actual consideration) not to take up the case is political. But these are the motives of the counsel not the motives of the petitioners. If Erik wants to discuses political motivations, he should talk about something he knows about, like how his company secured its defense contract. Considering that the Pentagon did not take any bids, its award decision certainly wasn’t because Blackwater was the most economical choice and if current events indicate anything then it certainly wasn’t because Blackwater was the most competent. So then what were the Pentagons motives, under the direction of a Republican President, in choose to award a no bid contract to a Republican owned security firm? One thing is for sure, they certainly weren't the same motives of the Iraqi petitioners.