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There Are Mercenaries In Iraq And We Hired Them
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The U.S. Government is out-sourcing the Iraqi War.
Contractors exceed troop level in Iraq
Government figures show that private contractors outnumber troops by about 20,000. One critic calls it "the coalition of the billing."By T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times
The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort.
More than 180,000 civilians -- including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis -- are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to State and Defense Department figures. Including the recent troop reinforcements, 160,000 soldiers and a few thousand civilian government employees are stationed in Iraq.
The total number of private contractors, far higher than previously reported, shows how heavily the United States has relied on private corporations to carry out Iraq policy -- a mission criticized as being undermanned.
"We don't have control of all the coalition guns in Iraq. That's dangerous for our country," said William Nash, a retired Army general and reconstruction expert. The Pentagon "is hiring guns. You can rationalize it all you want, but that's obscene." [In grade school we learned about mercenaries who were hired by other, despicable, countries.]
Although private companies have played a role in conflicts since the American Revolution, the United States has relied more on contractors in Iraq than in any other war in the nation's history, according to military experts.
What would happen if the contractors' employees went on strike?
I guess you go to war with the Army you've got and the mercenaries you can hire.
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