Venture capitalists with guns: private contractors in Iraq
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
By: Susie Curtiss

Mercenaries outnumber U.S. troops

The number of private contractors in Iraq outnumbers the number of U.S. military troops by at least 20,000.

There are more than 180,000 civilians now working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to U.S. State and Defense Department figures. After the recent "surge," U.S. troops number 160,000. (Los Angeles Times, July 4)

Corporations are earning tens of millions of dollars by enforcing the brutal U.S. occupation of Iraq. Peter Singer of the right-wing Brookings Institute commented: [highlight]"This is not the coalition of the willing. It’s the coalition of the billing."[/highlight]

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The most controversial contractors work for private security companies, like Blackwater USA, Triple Canopy, DynCorp and Erinys. They guard "sensitive" sites and provide protection to U.S. and Iraqi puppet government officials and businessmen.

Blackwater alone has received $1 billion in contracts.

Blackwater has 2,300 employees deployed in nine countries. Its largest contract is to provide security to U.S. diplomats and facilities in Iraq.

The wealthy corporations are robbing the American taxpayers blind. This could be the single biggest robbery in recorded history.

I wonder how much of a kickback George Bush gets from his wealthy Zionist Oligarch friends?

The U.S. Imperialists have learned from the mistakes of the Vietnam era :

- run the media - lock, stock, & barrel

- criticism is "hate" or "anti-Semitism"

- no military draft, use big money private "security" companies.

- make laws to seize assets of out of control anti-war protesters

Not to mention the decades of Zionist brainwashing on the American sheeple, has reduced them to border-line-retards, [aka Patriotards] compared to the worldly / informed people of the 60's.

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