Contractors (Mercenaries too) Outnumber U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

[Mari333]

Corporate War!! and YOU are paying for the mercs!
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Civilian contractors working for the Pentagon in Afghanistan not only outnumber the uniformed troops, according to a report by a Congressional research group, but also form the highest ratio of contractors to military personnel recorded in any war in the history of the United States.

What is clear, the report says, is that when contractors for the Pentagon or other agencies are not properly managed — as when civilian interrogators committed abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq or members of the security firm Blackwater shot and killed 17 Iraqi citizens in Baghdad — the American effort can be severely undermined.

As of March this year, contractors made up 57 percent of the Pentagon’s force in Afghanistan, and if the figure is averaged over the past two years, it is 65 percent, according to the report by the Congressional Research Service.









http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/world/asia/02contractors.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes

what a WASTE of OUR money!

[PM Martin]

1. Speaking of corporate war

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6442192&mesg_id=6442192

[jwirr]

2. So even if we pull out today we leave the Afghan people setting ducks

for our corporate military. They are right - we are and will lose the war for hearts and minds and when we do that we lose the argument.

[PeaceDreamer]

3. Get the US out of Afghanistan Now!

Obama, shut it down!