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30,000 Mercenaries

8/12/08, 12:50 pm EST

The CBO report (.pdf) puts the first number I’ve seen on the number of “security contractors” in the Iraq theater: 30,000. That’s one mercenary for every six U.S. soldiers.

The cost rationale:

The costs of a private security contract are comparable
with those of a U.S. military unit performing similar
functions. During peacetime, however, the private
security contract would not have to be renewed,
whereas the military unit would remain in the force
structure.


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Delta Wild Man | 8/12/2008, 1:31 pm EST

How many mercenaries have Iran and Saudi Arabia sent into Iraq?
We know that the Iranian and Saudi Arabian mercenaries are getting weapons and ammo from China.
So I guess if the Corporate American Army are called Mercenaries, can we call the Iranian and Saudi Arabian fighter ” FREEDOM FIGHTERS “??
And if we can do that, then should we also call people like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Anarchist??

It’s no longer acceptable for America to Export Freedom?

Coach | 8/12/2008, 1:39 pm EST

The good, old military/industrial complex strikes big!!! All under the guise of democracy and freedom. Freedom, at the wrong end of an M16……

Janis | 8/12/2008, 5:44 pm EST

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to loose.”

DirtyDennis | 8/12/2008, 6:19 pm EST

Jeez Janis, you not only misspell ‘lose,’ but you don’t give Kris Kristofferson credit. Jeez.

Coach, you and I BOTH know those mercs are getting paid a HAIL of a lot more than the grunts in Baghad. And who’s footing the bill?

Anonymous | 8/12/2008, 8:52 pm EST

Jed Clampett

Who´s gonna pay? your children and your childrens children for the next seven generations unless you do something to stop the lizards from doing their best to destroy the planet and it´s people and return to the heavens. Take care of the planet you have, it´s the only world we are able to live in, and any other world would be hell for us.

Anonymous | 8/13/2008, 1:49 am EST

Jed Clampett

3% of 6 billion people is 180 million incompassionates ruling the world by proxy… by the “virtue” of their exploitation of the biosphere and it´s inhabitants as well as total control of it´s most important resources as well as controling stock market prices and distorting the information provided to investors.

PS. lake chapala is an impact crater just like the one in Yucatan and the one around the area where “la niña” develops. They did not kill the dinosaurs, the earth protected itself with the waters and contained the smoke emmitted to an inwinding spiral motion, this same kind of motion is what will clean up our athmos-sphere as well as generate clean power for our homes and cars.
The huge impact crater near the north east coast of africa with the small islands around there making the tale-tell center of the crown typically seen when a drop of fluid falls on water. Earth tried to contain the smoke, but it cooled the earth, shook it, and changed it´s orbit. You can see the path of the smoke plume by following the deserts. Only being deprived of sunlight for a long time will kill off living earth so thoroughly. It reaches all the way over to the Goby desert in china.

Anonymous | 8/14/2008, 8:13 pm EST

Jed Clampett

and the news hour today gives confirmation of my vision that africa was once green and prosperous and that merely recently (a mere 5000+ years) suffered a cataclysmic event that caused life to subside. There was a discovery of a burial ground deep in the sahara where two different tribes of people buried their dead. They lived in prosperity and happiness together in a lush savanah with animals of all types, represented in their burial effigies. What we are being told is a lie, but truth is slowly making it’s way out.

Jeugenen | 8/14/2008, 9:15 pm EST

IN OLMERT WE TRUST
Who in the World does not trust in Olmert’s good reputation, since being told that he never lies; and certainly never steals or robs? And who embodies the fine Israeli character and Israeli stereotype better that Olmert? Now, who is the World shall dare to say, “Olmert is an Israeli; Olmert is a liar, Olmert is thief; and Olmert is a land-robber.”

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